Top 140 T.H. White Quotes (2024 Update)
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T.H. White Quote: “Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.”

101. “Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.”

T.H. White Quote: “I am writing a treatise just now” said the badger, coughing diffidently to show that he was absolutely set on explaining it, “which is to point out why Man has become the master of the animals. Perhaps you would like to hear it? It’s for my doctor’s degree you know,” he added hastily, before Wart could protest. He got few chances of reading his treatise to anybody, so he could not bear to let the opportunity slip by.”

102. “I am writing a treatise just now” said the badger, coughing diffidently to show that he was absolutely set on explaining it, “which is to point out why Man has become the master of the animals. Perhaps you would like to hear it? It’s for my doctor’s degree you know,” he added hastily, before Wart could protest. He got few chances of reading his treatise to anybody, so he could not bear to let the opportunity slip by.”

T.H. White Quote: “Something about doing a hateful and dangerous action for the sake of decency – for they knew that the fight was to be fought in blood and death without reward. They would get nothing but the unmarketable conscience of having done what they ought to do in spite of fear – something which wicked people have often debased by calling it glory with too much sentiment, but which is glory all the same.”

103. “Something about doing a hateful and dangerous action for the sake of decency – for they knew that the fight was to be fought in blood and death without reward. They would get nothing but the unmarketable conscience of having done what they ought to do in spite of fear – something which wicked people have often debased by calling it glory with too much sentiment, but which is glory all the same.”

T.H. White Quote: “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.”

104. “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.”

T.H. White Quote: “Queen Morgause,” said Gwenever thoughtfully, “must have been a strange person.”

105. “Queen Morgause,” said Gwenever thoughtfully, “must have been a strange person.”

T.H. White Quote: “The best cure for grief is learning”.”

106. “The best cure for grief is learning”.”

T.H. White Quote: “The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats...”

107. “The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats...”

T.H. White Quote: “He was feeling a new heresy coming over him, possibly as a result of the spirits, and it had something to do about the celibacy of the clergy. He had one already about the shape of his tonsure and the usual one about the date of Easter, as well as his of Pelagian business-but the latest was beginning to make him feel as if the presence of children was unnecessary.”

108. “He was feeling a new heresy coming over him, possibly as a result of the spirits, and it had something to do about the celibacy of the clergy. He had one already about the shape of his tonsure and the usual one about the date of Easter, as well as his of Pelagian business-but the latest was beginning to make him feel as if the presence of children was unnecessary.”

T.H. White Quote: “Saints, as the Old Ones knew very well, were a bad class of people to cross, so the children stood up hastily. ‘Och, now,’ they said. ‘Your Holiness, no offence, we are sure. We were only at wishing to make an exchange of ideas.”

109. “Saints, as the Old Ones knew very well, were a bad class of people to cross, so the children stood up hastily. ‘Och, now,’ they said. ‘Your Holiness, no offence, we are sure. We were only at wishing to make an exchange of ideas.”

T.H. White Quote: “For in those days love was ruled by a different convention to ours. In those days it was chivalrous, adult, long, religious, almost platonic. It was not a matter about which you could make accusations lightly. It was not, as we take it to be nowadays, begun and ended in a long week-end.”

110. “For in those days love was ruled by a different convention to ours. In those days it was chivalrous, adult, long, religious, almost platonic. It was not a matter about which you could make accusations lightly. It was not, as we take it to be nowadays, begun and ended in a long week-end.”

T.H. White Quote: “He may even have felt that God needed him more than Guenever did.”

111. “He may even have felt that God needed him more than Guenever did.”

T.H. White Quote: “Nearly all the ways of giving justice are unfair.”

112. “Nearly all the ways of giving justice are unfair.”

T.H. White Quote: “To disbelieve in original sin, does not mean that you must believe in original virtue. It only means that you must not believe that people are utterly wicked.”

113. “To disbelieve in original sin, does not mean that you must believe in original virtue. It only means that you must not believe that people are utterly wicked.”

T.H. White Quote: “Neither force, nor argument, nor opinion,” said Merlyn with the deepest sincerity, “are thinking. Argument is only a display of mental force, a sort of fencing with points in order to gain a victory, not for truth. Opinions are the blind alleys of lazy or of stupid men, who are unable to think.”

114. “Neither force, nor argument, nor opinion,” said Merlyn with the deepest sincerity, “are thinking. Argument is only a display of mental force, a sort of fencing with points in order to gain a victory, not for truth. Opinions are the blind alleys of lazy or of stupid men, who are unable to think.”

T.H. White Quote: “It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.”

115. “It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.”

T.H. White Quote: “Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you just can’t do that.”

116. “Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you just can’t do that.”

T.H. White Quote: “Perhaps war was due to fear: to fear of reliability. Unless there was truth, and unless people told the truth, there was always danger in everything outside the individual. You told the truth to yourself, but you had no surety for your neighbour. This uncertainty must end by making the neighbour a menace.”

117. “Perhaps war was due to fear: to fear of reliability. Unless there was truth, and unless people told the truth, there was always danger in everything outside the individual. You told the truth to yourself, but you had no surety for your neighbour. This uncertainty must end by making the neighbour a menace.”

T.H. White Quote: “Grey damp would be around them, and the sun, a copper penny, would fade away. The wings next to their own wings would shade into vacancy, until each bird was a lonely sound in cold annihilation, a presence after uncreation. And there they would hang in chartless nothing, seemingly without speed or left or right or top or bottom, until as suddenly as ever the copper penny glowed and the serpents writhed.”

118. “Grey damp would be around them, and the sun, a copper penny, would fade away. The wings next to their own wings would shade into vacancy, until each bird was a lonely sound in cold annihilation, a presence after uncreation. And there they would hang in chartless nothing, seemingly without speed or left or right or top or bottom, until as suddenly as ever the copper penny glowed and the serpents writhed.”

T.H. White Quote: “Arthur was not one of those interesting characters whose subtle motives can be dissected. He was only a simple and affectionate man, because Merlyn had believed that love and simplicity were worth having.”

119. “Arthur was not one of those interesting characters whose subtle motives can be dissected. He was only a simple and affectionate man, because Merlyn had believed that love and simplicity were worth having.”

T.H. White Quote: “I am a failure in the world. I do not rule people, nor deceive them for the sake of power, nor try to swindle their livelihood into my own possession. I say to them: Please go freely on your way, and I will do my best to follow mine. Well then, Maria, although this is not a fashionable way of going on, nor even a successful one, it is a thing which I believe in – that people must not tyrannize, nor try to be great because they are little.”

120. “I am a failure in the world. I do not rule people, nor deceive them for the sake of power, nor try to swindle their livelihood into my own possession. I say to them: Please go freely on your way, and I will do my best to follow mine. Well then, Maria, although this is not a fashionable way of going on, nor even a successful one, it is a thing which I believe in – that people must not tyrannize, nor try to be great because they are little.”

T.H. White Quote: “On the contrary, he made it clear that the business of the philosophers was to make ideas available, and not to impose them on people.”

121. “On the contrary, he made it clear that the business of the philosophers was to make ideas available, and not to impose them on people.”

T.H. White Quote: “October 20th, 1939 There don’t seem to be many people being killed yet – no hideous slaughters of gas and bacteria. But the truth is going. We are suffocating in propaganda instead of gas, slowly feeling our minds go dead.”

122. “October 20th, 1939 There don’t seem to be many people being killed yet – no hideous slaughters of gas and bacteria. But the truth is going. We are suffocating in propaganda instead of gas, slowly feeling our minds go dead.”

T.H. White Quote: “He became restless to embrace their example, but he was shy. Perhaps their family groups, he thought, would resent his intrusion: yet he wanted not to be lonely: he wanted to join in, and to enjoy the exercise of morning flight, which was so evidently a pleasure to them.”

123. “He became restless to embrace their example, but he was shy. Perhaps their family groups, he thought, would resent his intrusion: yet he wanted not to be lonely: he wanted to join in, and to enjoy the exercise of morning flight, which was so evidently a pleasure to them.”

T.H. White Quote: “Merlyn was a staunch conservative, which was rather progressive of him, when you reflect that he was living backwards.”

124. “Merlyn was a staunch conservative, which was rather progressive of him, when you reflect that he was living backwards.”

T.H. White Quote: “The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, “hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.”

125. “The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, “hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.”

T.H. White Quote: “He said, ‘Good dog, Beaumont the valiant, sleep now, old friend Beaumont, good old dog.’ Then Robin’s falchion let Beaumont out of this world, to run free with Orion and roll among the stars.”

126. “He said, ‘Good dog, Beaumont the valiant, sleep now, old friend Beaumont, good old dog.’ Then Robin’s falchion let Beaumont out of this world, to run free with Orion and roll among the stars.”

T.H. White Quote: “How condescending, how splendidly democratic of Sir Lancelot, to laugh, as if he were an ordinary man! Perhaps he eats and drinks as well, or even sleeps at night.”

127. “How condescending, how splendidly democratic of Sir Lancelot, to laugh, as if he were an ordinary man! Perhaps he eats and drinks as well, or even sleeps at night.”

T.H. White Quote: “Man seldom looks above his own height after adolescence.”

128. “Man seldom looks above his own height after adolescence.”

T.H. White Quote: “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.”

129. “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.”

T.H. White Quote: “An ordinary fellow, who did not spend half his life torturing himself by trying to discover what was right so as to conquer his inclination towards what was wrong, might have cut the knot which brought their ruin.”

130. “An ordinary fellow, who did not spend half his life torturing himself by trying to discover what was right so as to conquer his inclination towards what was wrong, might have cut the knot which brought their ruin.”

T.H. White Quote: “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.”

131. “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.”

T.H. White Quote: “They believed that the most important thing in the world was to find out what one liked doing, and then to do it. Thus the people who liked being hunters, were hunters; those who liked fishing, fished; and anybody who did not like doing anything at all was supported by the others with the greatest care and commiseration, for they considered him to be the most unfortunate of mortals.”

132. “They believed that the most important thing in the world was to find out what one liked doing, and then to do it. Thus the people who liked being hunters, were hunters; those who liked fishing, fished; and anybody who did not like doing anything at all was supported by the others with the greatest care and commiseration, for they considered him to be the most unfortunate of mortals.”

T.H. White Quote: “Everybody is always saying what a parfit, gentle knight I am, but it has nothing to do with me. It is Arthur’s idea. It is what he has wished on all the younger generation, like Gareth, and now it is fashionable.”

133. “Everybody is always saying what a parfit, gentle knight I am, but it has nothing to do with me. It is Arthur’s idea. It is what he has wished on all the younger generation, like Gareth, and now it is fashionable.”

T.H. White Quote: “Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?”

134. “Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?”

T.H. White Quote: “Wherever they went and wherever they slept, the east wind whistled in the reeds, and the geese went over high in the starlight, honking at the stars.”

135. “Wherever they went and wherever they slept, the east wind whistled in the reeds, and the geese went over high in the starlight, honking at the stars.”

T.H. White Quote: “We are so numerous that we are starving. Therefore we must encourage still larger families so as to become yet more numerous and starving. When we are so numerous and starving as all that, obviously we shall have a right to take other people’s stores of seed. Besides, we shall by then have a numerous and starving army.”

136. “We are so numerous that we are starving. Therefore we must encourage still larger families so as to become yet more numerous and starving. When we are so numerous and starving as all that, obviously we shall have a right to take other people’s stores of seed. Besides, we shall by then have a numerous and starving army.”

T.H. White Quote: “True warfare is rarer in Nature than cannibalism.”

137. “True warfare is rarer in Nature than cannibalism.”

T.H. White Quote: “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.”

138. “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.”

T.H. White Quote: “They did not look at these things as good or bad, exciting, rational or terrible. They did not look at them at all, but accepted them as Done.”

139. “They did not look at these things as good or bad, exciting, rational or terrible. They did not look at them at all, but accepted them as Done.”

T.H. White Quote: “Outside the window the thin moon stood upright in a deep sky, like the paring of a finger-nail for magic, and against the sky the weather vane of the carrion crow with arrow in mouth pointed it’s arrow to the south.”

140. “Outside the window the thin moon stood upright in a deep sky, like the paring of a finger-nail for magic, and against the sky the weather vane of the carrion crow with arrow in mouth pointed it’s arrow to the south.”

T.H. White Quote: “The cannons of his adversary were thundering in the tattered morning when the Majesty of England drew himself up to meet the future with a peaceful heart.”

141. “The cannons of his adversary were thundering in the tattered morning when the Majesty of England drew himself up to meet the future with a peaceful heart.”

T.H. White Quote: “Every letter written,” said a medieval abbot, “is a wound inflicted on the devil.”

142. “Every letter written,” said a medieval abbot, “is a wound inflicted on the devil.”

T.H. White Quote: “One has to live one’s knowledge.”

143. “One has to live one’s knowledge.”

T.H. White Quote: “I could ask,′ said the Wart. ‘You could ask,’ repeated Merlyn. He thrust the end of his beard into his mouth, stared tragically at the fire, and began to munch it fiercely.”

144. “I could ask,′ said the Wart. ‘You could ask,’ repeated Merlyn. He thrust the end of his beard into his mouth, stared tragically at the fire, and began to munch it fiercely.”

T.H. White Quote: “Do you think you can stop the consequences of a bad action, by doing good ones afterwards? I don’t. I have been trying to stopper it down with good actions, ever since, but it goes on in widening circles.”

145. “Do you think you can stop the consequences of a bad action, by doing good ones afterwards? I don’t. I have been trying to stopper it down with good actions, ever since, but it goes on in widening circles.”

T.H. White Quote: “Oh, I love the mustard-pot!” cried the Wart. “Wherever did you get it?” At this the pot beamed all over its face and began to strut a bit, but Merlyn rapped it on the head with a teaspoon, so that it sat down and shut up at once. “It is not a bad pot,” he said grudgingly. “Only it is inclined to give itself airs.”

146. “Oh, I love the mustard-pot!” cried the Wart. “Wherever did you get it?” At this the pot beamed all over its face and began to strut a bit, but Merlyn rapped it on the head with a teaspoon, so that it sat down and shut up at once. “It is not a bad pot,” he said grudgingly. “Only it is inclined to give itself airs.”

T.H. White Quote: “He was aware that her unthinkable beauty was neither that of age nor of youth. That her eyes were the only things you thought of looking at, and that to be her was terrible, whereas to be with her was the only joy.”

147. “He was aware that her unthinkable beauty was neither that of age nor of youth. That her eyes were the only things you thought of looking at, and that to be her was terrible, whereas to be with her was the only joy.”

T.H. White Quote: “It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.”

148. “It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.”

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