Top 10 Quotes by Simon Raven

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

Travel, Life Is Short, World

... life is short and the world is wide

Travel, Life Is Short, World

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

Simon Raven

Book, Boring, Notes

...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.

Simon Raven

Men, Light, Matter

Simon Raven (2001). “Doctors Wear Scarlet”, p.112, House of Stratus

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

Simon Raven

Art, Money, Sake

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

Simon Raven

Army, Institutions

Simon Raven (1963). “Boys Will be Boys”

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

Trust, Patience, Skills

Simon Raven (1962). “The Decline of the Gentleman”