T. H. White Quotes

I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whe...

He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usua...

There are no boundaries among the geese. How can you have boundaries if you fly?

These marvels were great and comfortable ones, but in the old England there was a greater still. The...

The best thing for disturbances of the spirit is to learn. That is the only thing that never fails. ...

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is n...

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

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot affo...

There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others...

You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disord...

Oh, what a lovely owl!" Cried the Wart.But when he went up to it and held out his hand, the owl grew...

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a se...

Everything not forbidden is compulsory

But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious pro...

Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no mo...

Don't kill me,' said the knight. 'I yield. I yield. You can't kill a man at mercy.'Lancelot put up h...

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growin...

Finally, there was the impediment of his nature. In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those un...

Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that dece...

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoo...

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that th...

There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, war...

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

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

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of...

The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. T...

It was Christmas night in the Castle of the Forest Sauvage, and all around length. It hung on the bo...

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same....

It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faith...

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without di...

The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wrec...

People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honor.

We have invented a moral sense which is rotting now that we can't give it employment, and when a mor...

Kings can only use their best tools.

The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assum...

The only way I can keep clear of force is by justice. Far from being willing to execute his enemies,...

He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that.

Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.

Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part.

It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and r...

He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstin...

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by prete...

I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The on...

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserab...

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have alwa...

So Merlyn sent you to me," said the badger, "to finish your education. Well, I can only teach you tw...

It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges...

I suppose the best way to tell the story is simply to narrate it, without an effort to carry belief....

My father always used to tell one of his dreams, because it somehow seemed of a piece with what was ...

He did not himself believe in the supernatural, but the thing happened, and he proposed to tell it a...

I suppose one has to be desperate, to be a successful writer. One has to reach a rock-bottom at whic...

He fancied himself on his humanity towards animals, as so many people do who are inhuman to their fe...

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserab...

He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on th...

At this the Wart's eyes grew rounder and rounder, until they were about as big as the owl's who was ...

Poor Cook, thought Captain, I must be kinder to her. She makes a splendid pet. How faithful she is! ...

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hear...