Quotes from Rex Warner

Excellence is always a matter of effort, and no one is capable of more than a certain amount of effort.

Such is the ability of man to believe in what at any time he finds it convenient to believe, they may actually have convinced themselves that they were speaking the truth.

Because an argument is used hypocritically, it does not necessarily follow that it is untrue.

It is undoubtedly rare for a man not to soon grow tired of a woman, but it is impossible to maintain that everything rare is undesirable.

If we are to believe in gods at all, we must believe them to be wiser and better than men.

Understanding is forgiveness. - Sonnet XV

Justice," he whispered, stretching out his hands as though in confident appeal to some impartial court, "justice that can be demonstrated mathematically, that is what I have to give.