Blunden Quotes

#1. 'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

Pat Barker

#2. In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

George Orwell

#3. If you are going out
beware of mangoes
And all such beautiful
sweet things.

Victor Hernandez Cruz

#4. Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

Edmund Blunden

#5. Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

Elizabeth Bowen

#6. Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,
Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.

Edmund Blunden

#7. Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool,

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. Witness Donald Trump's current presidential campaign. So first people need to find the white spaces, the unexploited or underexploited niches where there is less competition and more opportunity.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#9. I don't feel like playing whack-a-mole with a trained sniper right now.

Julie Kagawa

#10. If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season.

Shana Chartier

#11. I am for the woods against the world, But are the woods for me?

Edmund Blunden

#12. The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

Vince Cable

#13. It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

Suketu Mehta

#14. Shut your cake hole, you revolting young blot.

Gail Carriger

#15. Cricket to us was more than play,
It was a worship in the summer sun.

Edmund Blunden

#16. Suddenly I wanted the earlier version back, but there was no retrieving it. When I blurred the lines to soften them it was as if she began to disappear.

Robert Charles Wilson

#17. They died in splendour, these who claimed no spark
Of glory save the light in a friend's eye.

Edmund Blunden

#18. I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would."
"Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.

Richelle Mead

#19. Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it.

David Foster Wallace

#20. The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.

Newton D. Baker