Simon Raven famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

... life is short and the world is wide
-- Simon Raven

#Travel #Life Is Short #World
Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.
-- Simon Raven

#Life Is Short #World #Life Is
...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.
-- Simon Raven

#Men #Silent #Dusk
Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.
-- Simon Raven

#Book #Boring #Notes
Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.
-- Simon Raven

#Art #Money #Sake
Christ asked for everything he got.
-- Simon Raven

#Christ
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.
-- Simon Raven

#Army #Institutions
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
-- Simon Raven

#Patience #Skills #Age
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
-- Simon Raven

#Attitude #Bed #Said
Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.
-- Simon Raven

#Gentleman #Circumstances #Behave

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