Terence Handbury White Quotes

"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."

Terence Handbury White

The Queen of Air and Darkness - 1939 - Originally titled The Witch in the Wood.

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"Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?"

Terence Handbury White

The Queen of Air and Darkness - 1939 - Originally titled The Witch in the Wood.

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"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may...

Terence Handbury White

The Book of Merlyn - 1977 - A posthumous publication based upon White's notes of ideas for completing The Once and Future King.

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

Terence Handbury White

The Queen of Air and Darkness - 1939 - Originally titled The Witch in the Wood.

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Ther days may come, Ther days may go, But still the light of Mem'ry weaves Those gentle dreams Of long ago

Terence Handbury White

The Queen of Air and Darkness - 1939 - Originally titled The Witch in the Wood.

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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.

Terence Handbury White

The Godstone and the Blackymor - 1959.

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Little child Who was me once, My pity on you - And reverence. If we could meet Where I once strayed, The betrayer And the betrayed. If we could win back In Time's defiance, Would you be afeared of...

Terence Handbury White

"To My Self, Forty Years Ago".

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Be kind, Helen, I am so tired of thinking; There are so many difficult corridors of thought, With equal iron banisters leading back again: So many stone stairs, Helen, up which I sought To rediscover...

Terence Handbury White

"Lost".

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Helen whose face was fatal must have wept Many salt tears to keep her eyes so bright Many long nights alone: and every night Men died, she cried, and happy Paris kept,

Terence Handbury White

"PARIS".

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

Terence Handbury White

"All For Love".

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