Top 18 Quotes by A. E. Housman

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.