God save King Pendragon,May his reign long drag on,God save the King.Send him most gorious,Great and uproarious,
We find that at present the human race is divided into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under t...
Everything not forbidden is compulsory.
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
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.
She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But no...
He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that.
Poor Cook, thought Captain, I must be kinder to her. She makes a splendid pet. How faithful she is! I always say you can't get the same love from a dog that you can from a human. So clever, too. I bel...
The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats...
It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.
The best thing for being sad, replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie a...
Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves.
Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.
It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.
In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.
I suppose the best way to tell the story is simply to narrate it, without an effort to carry belief. The thing did not require belief. It was not a feeling of horror in one's bones, or a misty outline...
Guenever began to breathe through her nose. She was feeling as if there were two red thumbs behind her eyeballs, trying to push them out, and she did not want to look at him. She was trying not to mak...
Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.
We have invented a moral sense which is rotting now that we can't give it employment, and when a moral sense begins to rot, it is worse than when you had none. I suppose that all endeavors which are d...
There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not ob...