I know hardly anything about Galahad except that everybody dislikes him.Dislikes him?They complain about him being inhuman.Lancelot considered his cup.He is inhuman, he said at last. But why should he...
When a moral sense begins to rot it is worse than when you had none.
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lu...
Was it the wicked leaders who led innocent populations to slaughter, or was it wicked populations who chose leaders after their own hears? On the face of it, it seemed unlikely that one Leader could f...
Wars are never fought for one reason, he said. They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.
The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.
The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.
Ought to be havin’ a first-rate eddication, at their age. When I was their age I was doin’ all this Latin and stuff
One has to live one's knowledge
Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves.
Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people-- it is often very dangerous indeed to do things at all-- and the only thing worth doing for the...
My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is n...
If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?
I don't think things ought to be done because you are to do them. I think they should be done because you to do them.
He saw her as the passionate spirit of innocent youth, now beleaguered by the trick which is played on youth - the trick of treachery in the body, which turns flesh into green bones. Her stupid finery...
Owls are the most courteous, single—hearted and faithful creatures living. You must never be familiar, rude or vulgar with them, or make them look ridiculous. Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wi...
He began to see why Merlyn had always clowned on purpose. It had been a means of helping people to learn in a happy way.
All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end, as my famous Civilization was, contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
You swim along, said the tench, as if there was nothing to be afraid of in the world. Don't you see that this place is exactly like the forest which you had to come through to find me?