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Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go. — T.H. White

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

I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person.
~ Merlyn — T.H. White

Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad. — T.H. White

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. — T.H. White

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. — T.H. White

I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all. — William H. Macy

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

Kings can only use their best tools. — T.H. White

It is good to put your life in other people's hands. — T.H. White

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

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know. — T.H. White

He could do what all men wanted to, that is, fly — T.H. White

The destiny of all species is extinction as such, fortunately for them. — T.H. White

Only fools want to be great. — T.H. White

Everything not forbidden is compulsory — T.H. White

The Once and Future King. By T. H. White, — Helen Macdonald

People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honor. — T.H. White

The author says people are guilty of wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck. — T.H. White

When Other blood spurts from the knife, Then everything is fine. — T.H. White

But his heart had been made as a match for Elaine's, and now it was unable to bear the burden which hers had been forced to lay down. — T.H. White

I don't think things ought to be done because you are able to do them. I think they should be done because you ought to do them. — T.H. White

Aviators live by hours, not by days. — T.H. White

One more try,' he asked, 'We are not quite done.' 'What is the use of trying?' 'It is a thing which people do. — T.H. White

Education is experience and experience is self-reliance. — T.H. White

Sometimes things are more complicated than they seem. Sometimes what you see isn't so black and white. — Victoria H. Smith

when a moral sense begins to rot it is worse than when you had none. — T.H. White

Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force. — T.H. White

Leave well alone. — T.H. White

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. — T.H. White

Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents. — T.H. White

All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull. — T.H. White

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty. — T.H. White

The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic. — T.H. White

God is love, the parson whined.
Yes, and is he also blind? — T.H. White

And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds. — T.H. White

I can see that you spoke in ignorance, and I bitterly regret that I should have been so petty as to take offence where none was intended. — T.H. White

We have had a good time while we were young, but it is in the nature of Time to fly. — T.H. White

He fancied himself on his humanity towards animals, as so many people do who are inhuman to their fellow men ... — T.H. White

We cannot build the future by avenging the past. — T.H. White

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition? — 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

Who said that?" asked Sir Grummore.
"But the sword said it, like I tell you."
"Talkative weapon," remarked Sir Grummore skeptically. — T.H. White

I don't think you can very well give people as presents: they might not like it. — T.H. White

Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you just can't do that — T.H. White

After several minutes [Wart] said, "Is one allowed to speak as a human being, or does the thing about being seen and not heard have to apply? — T.H. White

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

Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves? — T.H. White

People are dupes, and wicked too. That is what makes it interesting to get them better. — T.H. White

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment. — T.H. White

He began to see why Merlyn had always clowned on purpose. It had been a means of helping people to learn in a happy way. — T.H. White

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

In going to sleep he had learned to vanquish light, and now the light could not rewake him. — T.H. White

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. — T.H. White

Queen Morgause," said Gwenever thoughtfully, "must have been a strange person. — T.H. White

Gawaine and Gareth took turns with the fat ass, one of them whacking it while the other rode bareback. — T.H. White

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance. — T.H. White

Thy sorrow will come from thine own mouth. — T.H. White

Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part. — T.H. White

The snow-haired Uncle Dap, so old as to be absolutely fabulous, was trying to jump over his walking-stick. — T.H. White

The miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle. And ever, says Mallory, Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that had been beaten. — T.H. White

The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist. — T.H. White

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

made of stone. It had no windows and only one door, through which you had to crawl. — T.H. White

I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I can't think of anything to do. — T.H. White

Vamps don't think in black and white. Shades of gray, baby." Faer hefted his sword. — Sophie H. Morgan

Yes Wart' said Merlyn 'Or rather, as I should say (or is it have I said?), Yes, King Arthur — T.H. White

You think education is something to be done when all else fails? — T.H. White

He may even have felt that God needed him more than Guenever did. — T.H. White

Nobody can be too careful about their habits of speech. — T.H. White

Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle. — T.H. White

Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. — T.H. White

The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust. — T.H. White

It is difficult to write about a real person. — T.H. White

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible. — T.H. White

True warfare is rarer in Nature than cannibalism. — T.H. White

It is only the people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. — T.H. White

So little time to pass? said Merlyn, and a big tear ran down to the end of his nose. — T.H. White

The poor fellow had never been cut out to be a villain. — T.H. White

Hic jacet Arthurus Rex quandam Rexque futurus - the once and future king. — T.H. White

But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons. — T.H. White

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

The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something. — T.H. White

Ought to be havin' a first-rate eddication, at their age. When I was their age I was doin' all this Latin and stuff — T.H. White

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it. — T.H. White

In the course of a long experience of the human race, I have learned that you can never make them understand anything, unless you rub it in. — T.H. White

War is like a fire, Agnes. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular. — T.H. White

The bravest people are the ones who don't mind looking like cowards. — T.H. White

The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny. — T.H. White

He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal
stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life. — T.H. White

Wherever they went and wherever they slept, the east wind whistled in the reeds, and the geese went over high in the starlight, honking at the stars. — T.H. White

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

a king can only work with his best tools. — T.H. White

It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough. — T.H. White

Who doth ambition shun And loves to lie in the sun, Seeking the food he eats And pleased with what he gets, — T.H. White

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats ... — T.H. White

It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards. — T.H. White

Merlyn always said that sportsmanship was the curse of the world, and so it is. — 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