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Charles Edward Montague
8 quotes
“War hath no fury like a non-combatant.”
Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Disenchantment (1922), ch. 16, pt. 5
“It was the fault of the war, the outlandish, innovatory war that did not conform to the proper text-books as it ought to have done; an unimagined war of flankless armies scratching each other's faces across an endless thorn hedge, not dreamt of in Staff College philosophy; a war that was always putting out of date the best that had been known and thought and invented, always sending everyone to school again.”
Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Disenchantment, (1922), ch. 3, pt. 6
“All of ourselves, with our boastful chatter about “the public school spirit”, our gallant, robust contempt for “swats” and “smugs” and all who invented new means to new ends and who trained and used their brains with a will – we had arranged for these easy battues of thousands of Englishmen, who, for their part, did not fail. To-morrow you would see it again – a few hundred square yards of ground gained by the deaths, perhaps of twenty thousand men.”
Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Disenchantment, (1922), ch. 11.
“We all see more of architecture than of any other art. Every street is a gallery of architects’ work, and in most streets, whatever their age, there is good work and bad. Through these amusing shows many of us walk unperceivingly, all our days, like illiterates in a library, so richly does the fashionable education provide us with blind sides .”
Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Right Place (1924), quoted in Murphy, Edward F., The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations, Greenwich House, New York, 1978 (pg. 47-48).
“Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used to keep your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of some more innocent person.”
Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Right Place (1924), quoted in Murphy, Edward F., The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations, New York : Crown Publishers, 1978 (pg. 466).
“The true delight of travel, the one that is going to print itself unaccountably and indelibly on you, seems to prefer to come as a thief in the night, and not at the hours you specially fix for its entertainment.”
Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Right Place (1924), Murphy, Edward F., The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations, New York : Crown Publishers, 1978 (pg. 560).
“Nothing in language is immutably fixed: the best writers are constantly changing it. Absolute government by dictionary would mean the arrest of this healthy process of change and growth.”
Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Elton, Oliver, ‘’C. E. Montague: A Memoir’’, London, Chatto & Windus, 1929. Also quoted in Murphy, Edward F., The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations, New York : Crown Publishers, 1978 (pg. 216).
“What I mean by reading is not skimming, not being able to say as the world saith, "Oh, yes, I've read that!," but reading again and again, in all sorts of moods, with an increase of delight every time, till the thing read has become a part of your system and goes forth along with you to meet any new experience you may have.”
Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Writer's Notes on his Trade, (1930), Murphy, Edward F., The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations, New York : Crown Publishers, 1978 (pg. 501).