W. L. George Quotes

The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

It is rather interesting how you get used to death.

Death can be more exciting than life.

These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!

fretting at trouble only doubles it.

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

When they are among us cats are angels

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

a woman's heart has no wrinkles.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing.

Dear world, I am leaving because I am bored.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

Man's most serious activity is play.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

Heaven is to be at peace with things.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

The Bush administration is a paragon of wisdom.

To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.

The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.