Famous Walter de la Mare Quotes

  • Once a man strays out of the common herd, he’s more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels. – Walter de la Mare

    Once a man strays out of the common herd, he’s more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.– Walter de la Mare

  • Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there’s plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, Mr Lawford. – Walter de la Mare

    Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there’s plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, Mr Lawford.– Walter de la Mare

  • The time’s gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy’s all very well but after all it’s justice that clinches the bargain. – Walter de la Mare

    The time’s gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy’s all very well but after all it’s justice that clinches the bargain.– Walter de la Mare

  • Oh, pity the poor gluttonWhose troubles all beginIn struggling on and on to turnWhat’s out into what’s in. – Walter de la Mare

    Oh, pity the poor gluttonWhose troubles all beginIn struggling on and on to turnWhat’s out into what’s in.– Walter de la Mare

  • Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark. – Walter de la Mare

    Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.– Walter de la Mare

  • It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches. – Walter de la Mare

    It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.– Walter de la Mare

  • God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise. – Walter de la Mare

    God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.– Walter de la Mare

  • Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality. – Walter de la Mare

    Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.– Walter de la Mare