Robert Graves Quotes

Christ of his gentleness, / Thirsting and hungering / Walked in the wilderness; / Soft words of grace he spoke / Unto lost desert-folk / That listened wondering. - Robert Graves

Bullfight critics row on row crowd the enormous plaza de toros, but only one is there who knows, and he's the one who fights the bull. - Robert Graves

As you are woman, so be lovely:
As you are lovely, so be various,
Merciful as constant, constant as various,
So be mine, as I yours for ever. - Robert Graves

Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples. - Robert Graves

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. - Robert Graves

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure. - Robert Graves

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good. - Robert Graves

`How is your trade, Aquarius, / This frosty night?' / `Complaints is many and various / And my feet are cold,' says Aquarius. - Robert Graves

Page 4 of 4

<<-First <-Previous