241 Quotes by Robert Graves

At last, hopelessly surveying myself all over, I was obliged to face the mortifying fact that I had been transformed not into a bird, but into a plain jackass.

What's remarkable about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

On occasions of this sort it was, I must admit, very pleasurable to be a monarch: to be able to get important things done by smothering stupid opposition with a single authoritative word.

As quick as boiled asparagus!

England looked strange to us returned soldiers. We could not understand the war-madness that ran wild everywhere, looking for a pseudo-military outlet. The civilians talked a foreign language. I found serious conversation with my parents all but impossible.

There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.

He was always boasting of his ancestors, as stupid people do who are aware that they have done nothing themselves to boast about.

Dwóch trzeba do kompanii, lecz jednego do jej rozwiązania.

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.