Quotes from T. H. White

The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.

If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there

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

Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails ... Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.

He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.

Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.

God is love, the bishops tell. Yes, I know, But love is hell.

God is love, the parson whined. Yes, and is he also blind?

Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.

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

[Learning] is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust . . . never fear . . . and never dream of regretting.

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.

There is only one thing for it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it...

The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

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

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

Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.