190 Quotes by T.H. White

I suppose one has to be desperate, to be a successful writer. One has to reach a rock-bottom at which one can afford to let everything go hang. One has got to damn the public, chance one’s living, say what one thinks, and be oneself. Then something may come out.

The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails.

Ought to be havin’ a first-rate eddication, at their age. When I was their age I was doin’ all this Latin and stuff.

If there is one thing I can’t stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.

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.

You think education is something to be done when all else fails?

What have you done with Watt?′ You should try to speak with out assonance,” said the wizard. “For instance, ‘the beer is never clear near here, dear,’ is unfortunate, even as assonance.

The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then – to learn.

When Other blood spurts from the knife, Then everything is fine.