Charles Edward Montague famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
-- Charles Edward Montague

#War #Liberty #Fury
To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Happiness #Spring #Quotations
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Lying #Taken #Left Out
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Cutting #Patriotism #Razors
To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Strong #Jobs #Pain
A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Girl #Mean #Perspective
Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Summer #Children #Mean
If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Too Much #Mankind #Ifs
A lot of our fellow liberals ... seem to me rather to doom themselves to futility in public affairs because the won't recognize that there's a zone of natural affection midway between the inner, or family one, and the outer, or all-humanity one. I suppose they are somehow short of a zone themselves and they seem to get vexed... The common man knows better, just as he'd know better if some philosopher told him he ought not to make invidious distinctions by feeding his own children in preference to others. But of course he can't explain; he just ... goes on feeding the kids.
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Children #Kids #Men
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Military #Distance #Army
Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Wine #Soul #Typical

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