21 quotes
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 Godstone and the Blackymor (1959)
The best thing for being sad … is to learn something.
The Sword in the Stone (1963)
God is love, the bishops tell.
Yes, I know, But love is hell.
God is love, the parson whined.
Yes, and is he also blind?
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.
The Once and Future King (1958)
The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.
England Have My Bones (1936)
Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
England Have My Bones (1936)
The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.
Farewell Victoria (1933)
Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically -- to those who hardly think about us in return.
The Queen of Air and Darkness (1939)
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.
England Have My Bones (1936)
"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".
The Book of Merlyn (1977)
"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?"
The Book of Merlyn (1977)
They (the enemy) pottered off through Idiot's Utterly, High Hiccough, Malpaquet Middling and Mome.
Mistress Masham's Repose (1946)
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.
Mistress Masham's Repose (1946)
The once and future king.
Title of novel (1958)
He (the Professor) was a failure but did his best to hide it. One of his failings was that he could barely write, except in a twelfth century hand, in Latin, with abbreviations.
Mistress Masham's Repose (1946)
Aviators live by hours, not by days.
England Have My Bones (1936)
Helen whose face was fatal must have wept
Many salt tears to keep her eyes so bright
Many long nights alone: and every night
Men died, she cried, and happy Paris kept
Sweet Helen.
Ther days may come,/Ther days may go,/But still the light of Mem'ry weaves/Those gentle dreams/Of long ago
The Queen of Air and Darkness (1939)
And shall the Schoolmen die?
And shall the Schoolmen die?
Five hundred men of Lilliput
Will know the reason why.
Mistress Masham's Repose (1946)