Richard Aldington Quotes

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for regret.
We took our risk with you; you died and we live. We take your noble gift, salute for the last time those lines of pitiable crosses, those solitary mounds, those unknown graves, and turn to live our lives out as we may.
Which of us were fortunate
who can tell? For you there is silence and cold twilight drooping in awful desolation over those motionless lands. For us sunlight and the sound of women's voices, song and hope and laughter, despair, gaiety, love
life.
Lost terrible silent comrades, we, who might have died, salute you.

At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.

Forgetting is woman's first and greatest art.

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

He wore the black suit which he used for funerals, a form of social entertainment which greatly appealed to Mr. Judd since it combined dignity of emotion with solemn lessons on the dangers of existence in an under-policed country.

But if I'm useless only because I haven't been properly educated, is that my fault?

The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.

Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.