T. H. White Quotes

United Kingdom, Author
May 29, 1906 – January, 17, 1964.

Terence Hanbury "Tim" White (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964) was an English author best known for his Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958. One of his most memorable is the first of the series, The Sword in the Stone, published as a stand-alone book in 1938.

Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

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- World
- Mind
- Why
In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

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- May
- War

The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.

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- Lust
Might does not make right! Right makes right!

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The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.

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- Sad
Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.

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- Friends
- Want
- Doe
Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.

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

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- Life
- Bitter

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

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- Might
Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.

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

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- Men