T. H. White Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  T. H. White

  Suicide, Issues, Alive

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

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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.

  T. H. White

  Horse, Tired, Calling

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

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• The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.

  T. H. White

  Weekend, Going Away, Anxious

  'Farewell Victoria' (1933) pt. 4

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• You think education is something to be done when all else fails?

  T. H. White

  Thinking, Done, Failing

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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?

  T. H. White

  Mother, Father, Sleep

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

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• You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.

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  Running, Boys, Risk

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.65, Penguin

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• Cavall came simply, and gave him his heart and soul.

  T. H. White

  Heart, Soul, Heart And Soul

  "The Once and Future King".

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• It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.

  T. H. White

  Battle, Ransom, Tribute

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

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

  T. H. White

  Germs, Corruption, Endeavour

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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!

  T. H. White

  Two, Magic, Kind

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

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• It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

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  Armament, Starving, Seems

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.112, Penguin

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• There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure.

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  Book, Smell, Too Much

  T. H. White (2010). “The Once and Future King”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back.

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  Kings, Years, May

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.253, Penguin

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• The nice thing about the queen of Flanders' daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. A lot of people laughed at you when you went after the Questing Beast - and never caught it - but Piggy never laughed. She seemed to understand at once how interesting it was, and made several sensible suggestions about the way to trap it. Naturally, one did not pretend to be clever or anything, but it was nice not to be laughed at. One was doing one's best.

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  Daughter, Queens, Clever

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.248, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Pain, Heart, Unrequited Love

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.366, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Blow, Winning, Defense

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.75, Penguin

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• The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.

  T. H. White

  Lust, Buns, Fisherman

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

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• Jenny, all my life I have wanted to do miracles. I have wanted to be holy. I suppose it was ambition or pride or some other unworthy thing. It was not enough for me to conquer the world--I wanted to conquer heaven too.

  T. H. White

  Ambition, Pride, Conquer The World

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

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