Author: Robert Graves

Quotes

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

- Robert Graves

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

- Robert Graves

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

- Robert Graves

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

- Robert Graves

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

- Robert Graves

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

- Robert Graves

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

- Robert Graves

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

- Robert Graves

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