T. H. White Short Quotes

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God is love, the parson whined.
Yes, and is he also blind?

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People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.

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The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.

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God is love, the bishops tell.
Yes, I know, But love is hell.

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It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.

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It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

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The bravest people are the ones who don't mind looking like cowards.

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All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.

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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

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Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

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It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

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Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you just can't do that

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Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?

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I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I can't think of anything to do.

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A Humble PRESENT to Our Female MOUNTAIN + From the CITIZENS + BOROUGH of LILLIPUT in EXILE

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They (the enemy) pottered off through Idiot's Utterly, High Hiccough, Malpaquet Middling and Mome.

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Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.

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You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.

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Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically — to those who hardly think about us in return.

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Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

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Ther days may come,
Ther days may go,
But still the light of Mem'ry weaves
Those gentle dreams/Of long ago

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If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.

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If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

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And shall the Schoolmen die?
And shall the Schoolmen die?
Five hundred men of Lilliput
Will know the reason why.

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Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can't exist.

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Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.

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A spider is an air worm, as it is provided with nourishment from the air, which a long thread catches down to its small body.

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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.

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The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.

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I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.

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