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Simon Raven
11 quotes
“Dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.”
Simon Raven (1927–2001) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Doctors Wear Scarlet (1960), pt. 2
“And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.”
Simon Raven (1927–2001) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Decline of the Gentleman (1962), Apology
“Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.”
Simon Raven (1927–2001) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Decline of the Gentleman (1962), pt. 3, ch. 3
“He replaced his glasses, which were now smeared with mucus, and manfully assumed what he liked to think was the cautious but enlightened manner of one born to high responsibility which only conscience forbade him abrogate as modesty suggested.”
Simon Raven (1927–2001) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Rich Pay Late (1964), pt. 1
“The highest moral character can procure one no preference among the shades.”
Simon Raven (1927–2001) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fielding Gray (1967), pp. 56–7
“Christ asked for everything he got.”
Simon Raven (1927–2001) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Judas Boy (1968), pt. 2, ch. 7
“In becoming the universe God abdicated. He destroyed himself as God. He turned what he had been, his true self, into nullity and thereby forfeited the Godlike qualities which pertained to him. The universe which he has become is also his grave. He has no control in it or over it. God, as God, is dead.”
Simon Raven (1927–2001) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Survivors (1976), pt. 1
“Rose girl, bearing your posies, What are you coming to sell? Is it yourself or your roses, Or yourself and your roses as well?”
Simon Raven (1927–2001) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Roses of Picardie (1980), ch. 6
“Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.”
Simon Raven (1927–2001) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Michael Barber, The Captain (2001), ch. 8
“Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another.”
Simon Raven (1927–2001) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Michael Barber, The Captain (2001), ch. 10
“I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.”
Simon Raven (1927–2001) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Michael Barber, The Captain (2001), ch. 11