241 Quotes by Robert Graves

He also said that everyone died of drink in Limerick except the Plymouth Brethren, who died of religious melancholia.

When a dream is born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, When you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stain, O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch You’ll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much.

What we now call “finance” is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Yet let me warn you to beware of the one-sandalled man: he will hate you, and before he has done his hatred will make mince-meat of you.

If I were a young man With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man Straight as an arrow, I’d store up no virtue For Heaven’s distant plain, I’d live at ease as I did please And sin once again.

Augustus ruled the world, but Livia ruled Augustus.

I had in the first place spoken extremely frankly, and unexpected frankness about oneself is never unacceptable.

All civil wars are dynastic wars, my lord King; all overseas wars are trade wars,” agreed the portly Hyrian.

When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of chaos: Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love Which alone, as we know certainly, restores Fragmentation into true being. Ecstasy of Chaos.