T. H. White

“God is love, the parson whined.Yes, and is he also blind?”

“God is love, the bishops tell.Yes, I know, But love is hell.”

“Helen whose face was fatal must have weptSweet Helen.”

“Be kind, Helen, I am so tired of thinking;Even for pain.”

“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.”

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

“Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.”

“Aviators live by hours, not by days.”

“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.”

“Ther days may come,/Ther days may go,/But still the light of Mem'ry weaves/Those gentle dreams/Of long ago”

“Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically -- to those who hardly think about us in return.”

“She (Maria) lived in an enormous house in the wilds of Northamptonshire, which was about four times longer than Buckingham Palace, but was falling down.”

“When she (Maria) had come abreast of the little island of Mistress Masham's Repose, she began to feel piratical. Swouns and Slids, she said to herself, but you could slap her vitals if she did not careen there, and perhaps dig up some buried treasure while about it.”

“He (the Professor) was a failure but did his best to hid it. One of his failings was that he could barely write, except in a twelfth century hand, in Latin, with abbreviations.”

“A Humble PRESENT to Our Female MOUNTAIN + From the CITIZENS + BOROUGH of LILLIPUT in EXILE”

“They (the enemy) pottered off through Idiot's Utterly, High Hiccough, Malpaquet Middling and Mome.”

“And shall the Schoolmen die?”

“Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?”

“"Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead".”

““I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe.””