Charles Edward Montague Quotes

#1. A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Charles Edward Montague

#2. The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

Charles Edward Montague

#3. 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

#4. There are all kinds of ways to be in the world. And no matter what has happened to us, or what we have been told, or what we have believed, we get to choose our way.

Deborah Wiles

#5. A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, by not swallowing them.

Charles Edward Montague

#6. I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

Signe Baumane

#7. There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

Charles Edward Montague

#8. To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

Charles Edward Montague

#9. If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.

Frederick Lenz

#10. War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

Charles Edward Montague

#11. Anyone who thinks heaven is not hot water behind a locked door has forgotten what it means to live.

Lucy Frank

#12. When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.

Anthony Trollope

#13. I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times.

Linda Fiorentino

#14. 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

#15. To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

Charles Edward Montague

#16. 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

#17. Tyler shrugs. "It's a big world, Jo. Who am I to say what is and isn't possible?

Brandy Nacole

#18. O miracle - thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!

Georges Bernanos

#19. A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking his mistress's head,

Jane Austen

#20. They're fooling themselves," I say. "It's better to deal with your shit head on. Life doesn't get better if you look away.

Ann Aguirre

#21. Basically political economy - that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at commercial interests, consolidation - the economy structures are experience.

Astra Taylor

#22. By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf.

Sarah MacLean

#23. If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

Charles Edward Montague