190 Quotes by T.H. White

People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.

True warfare is rarer in Nature than cannibalism.

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!

For happiness is only a bye-product of function, as light is a bye-product of the electric current running through the wires. If the current cannot run efficiently, the light does not come. That is why nobody finds happiness, who seeks it on its own account.

Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind’s power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.

Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds.

A fortnight after the Winchester tournament, while Elaine nursed her hero back to life, Guenever was having a scene with Sir Bors at court. Being a woman-hater, Bors always had instructive scenes with women. He said what he thought, and they said what they thought, and neither of them understood the other a bit.

Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical – as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.

We have invented a moral sense which is rotting now that we can’t give it employment, and when a moral sense begins to rot, it is worse than when you had none. I suppose that all endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end, as my precious civilization was, contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.