Brailsford Quotes & Sayings

Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast,
A full-hatched beauty seems to nest
Nor snow, which falling from the sky
Hovers in its virginity. — Henry Noel Brailsford

They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers. — Henry Noel Brailsford

Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
Roses do blush and hang their heads — Henry Noel Brailsford

The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave, no man in his generation preached republican virtue in better English, nor lived it with a finer disregard of self.

{On American founding father and hero, Thomas Paine} — H.N. Brailsford