T. H. White Quotes about Children

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Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

Children, Comforting, Degradation

T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.12, University of Texas Press

Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.

Dog, Children, Mad

"England Have My Bones". Book by T. H. White, 1936.

The miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle. And ever, says Mallory, Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that had been beaten.

Children, Miracle, Lancelot

T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.467, Penguin

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

Children, Believe, Easy

T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.329, Penguin