Quotations

"There are no fields of amaranth on this side of the grave: there are no voices, O Rhodope ! that are not soon mute, however tuneful : there is no name, with whatever emphasis of passionate love repeated, of which the echo is not faint at last." Walter Savage Landor. My favourite sentence in English literature.

"Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money." Gerald Brenan. I first heard of him when he managed to get out of his nursing home in Pinner and get back to Spain to die. A good writer, a junior member of the Bloomsbury Set who shocked Lytton Strachey because he was Christian.

'According to Tina Brown, Queen Mary once said to a relative, “You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired and we all love hospitals.”'

'Ever since my book What the Saints Never Said was published, people have asked me, “What is your least favorite apocryphal saint quote?” Some people expect me to answer with the classic faux Franciscan quote “Preach the Gospel, use words if necessary,” which is irritating because it reduces evangelism to “random acts of kindness.” The one I detest the most, however, is attributed to St. Augustine: “The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.”'
Trent Horn

“The life of a national people is sharply delineated by its boundaries, sacred rivers, formidable mountains, and boundless seas, and is thus fixed in space. It is based on tradition, oriented towards a distant future and thus fixed in time. Woe to him who cuts off his own roots, he becomes a worthless human being, a parasite.” Ernst Jünger