Not who you're looking for? Others named Robert Graves: English poet and novelist (1895-1985) · English line engraver (1798-1873) · Australian rugby union footballer and coach, and rugby leagu
“The dead may speak the truth only, even when it discredits themselves.”
“The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good — in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”
“If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of a man who desrves them.”
“Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home.”
“Shells used to come bursting on my bed at midnight, even though Nancy shared it with me; strangers in daytime would assume the faces of friends who had been killed... I could not use a telephone, I felt sick every time I travelled by train, and to see more than two new people in a single day prevented me from sleeping.”
“Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.”
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