Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
T. H. White
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
T. H. White
Age: 57 †
Born: 1906
Born: May 29
Died: 1964
Died: January 17
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Bombay
Terence Hanbury White
T. H. White
Tim White
Like
Dogs
Mad
Dog
Quite
Small
Children
More quotes by T. H. White
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
T. H. White
If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
T. H. White
Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.
T. H. White
But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
T. H. White
We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
T. H. White
It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.
T. H. White
In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.
T. H. White
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.
T. H. White
Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.
T. H. White
The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.
T. H. White
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?
T. H. White
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 now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.
T. H. White
Kings can only use their best tools.
T. H. White
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.
T. H. White
It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.
T. H. White
Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you can 't do that.
T. H. White
Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.
T. H. White
If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there
T. H. White
Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.
T. H. White
If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
T. H. White
