T. H. White Quotes - Page 3

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• It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

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  People, Perfect, Be Good

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• a king can only work with his best tools.

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  Kings, Tools

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.407, Penguin

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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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  Stupidity, Ghost, Sin

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.195, Penguin

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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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  Owl, Doe, Want

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• But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.

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  Weapons

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.72, University of Texas Press

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• Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.

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  Love Is, Mind, Bait

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.45, Penguin

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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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  Men, Years, Reptiles

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.489, Penguin

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• Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.

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  Dog, Children, Mad

  "England Have My Bones". Book by T. H. White, 1936.

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• People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.

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  Suicide, People, Weakness

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.447, Penguin

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• The miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle. And ever, says Mallory, Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that had been beaten.

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  Children, Miracle, Lancelot

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.467, Penguin

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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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  Thinking, Said, Warts

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.64, Penguin

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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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  Fate, Men, Blue

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.

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  Lying, Ocean, Heart

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• They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water. For twenty-four years they were guilty, but this first year was the only one which seemed like happiness. Looking back on it, when they were old, they did not remember that in this year it had ever rained or frozen. The four seasons were coloured like the edge of a rose petal for them.

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  Years, Rivers, Rose

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• Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad.

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  Mean, Cutting, People

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.218, Penguin

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• 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 words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas.

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  Sea, Jumping, Talking

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.39, Penguin

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• A lot of brainless unicorns swaggering about and calling themselves educated just because they can push each other off a horse with a bit of a stick! It makes me tired.

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  Horse, Tired, Calling

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.53, Penguin

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• [Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.

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  Clever, Heart, People

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.35, Penguin

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

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  Might

  "The Once and Future King".

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• When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?

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  Mother, Father, Sleep

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.186, Penguin

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• ...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

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  Germs, Corruption, Endeavour

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• War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

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  War, Men, Fire

  "The Once and Future King".

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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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  Suicide, Issues, Alive

  "England Have My Bones". Book by T. H. White, 1936.

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

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  Children, Believe, Easy

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.329, Penguin

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• The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To revert to a feral state!

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  Two, Magic, Kind

  T.H. White (2012). “The Goshawk”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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