Top 19 Quotes by Henry Williamson

About Henry Williamson

These are some quotes by English author Henry Williamson Author, who lived between December 1, 1895 and August 13, 1977.

I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.

Henry Williamson

The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in some foolish confiding moment I try to explain why I want to re-live those old days, to tear the Truth out of the past so that all men shall see plainly, perhaps someone will say to me, 'Oh, the War! A tragedy - best forgotten.'

Henry Williamson

Every country in every war fights for freedom.

Every country in every war fights for freedom.

Henry Williamson

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

Henry Williamson

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

Henry Williamson

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

Henry Williamson

The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many streams falling through wooded coombes below the moor.

The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many streams falling through wooded coombes below the moor.

Henry Williamson

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

Henry Williamson

All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.

All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.

Henry Williamson

The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.

The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.

Henry Williamson

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