30 Quotes by Richard Aldington

I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.

Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?