190 Quotes by T.H. White

You know that eye-to-eye recognition, when two people look deeply into each other's pupils, and burrow to the soul? It usually comes before love. I mean the clear, deep, milk-eyed recognition expressed by the poet Donne. Their eyebeams twisted and did thread their eyes upon a double string. My father recognized that the Professor was a Troll, and the Professor recognized my father's recognition. Both of them knew that the Professor had eaten his wife. - The Troll

A lot of brainless unicorns swaggering about and calling themselves educated just because they can push each other off a horse with a bit of a stick! It makes me tired.

Resulta difícil hablar de moral; lo que ha sucedido es que hemos inventado unos principios morales que ahora se hallan corrompidos, toda vez que no pueden ser puestos en práctica. Y cuando la moral se corrompe, entonces es peor que carecer de ella.

There are no boundaries among the geese. How can you have boundaries if you fly?

The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.

The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.

Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you just can't do that

No… - dijo sir Lanzarote–, pues una vez caído en la vergüenza quizá no vuelva a recobrarse.

What a bursting heart of gratitude and triumph as the ravening monster slowly paced down the arm with gripping steps and pounced upon his breakfast! The rest of the day was a glow of pleasure, a kind of still life in which the sun shone on the flowers with more than natural brilliance, giving them the high lights of porcelain.