He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known wo...
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 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...
True warfare is rarer in Nature than cannibalism.
The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.
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...
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...
People are dupes, and wicked too. That is what makes it interesting to get them better.
Only fools want to be great.
It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their pessimism to attack. Arthur
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?
He may even have felt that God needed him more than Guenever did.
Cavall came simply and gave his heart and soul.
But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
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?
Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
We have had a good time while we were young, but it is in the nature of Time to fly.
There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are so wicked th...
Ought to be havin’ a first-rate eddication, at their age. When I was their age I was doin’ all this Latin and stuff
