Seven pounds, nine shillings and sixpence turned out to be the value they’d put on Arthur’s life. I sat alone at the kitchen table, and I think that was the moment I knew I’d never see my husband again.
Just remember, New York isn’t an offshoot of Bloomsbury. Forget refinement, understatement and irony. However much it’s against your better nature, you’ll have to learn to sell your wares like an East End barrow boy.
I am sure the House will agree that given these circumstances, my final judgment will require the wisdom of Solomon.
But he knew that on the day of a general election, every candidate is convinced he is going to win, even the Liberals. Giles.
Perhaps it’s appallingly written, boring, without merit and unworthy of our time, but at least let us be the judge of that.
Faint heart ne’er won a lady fair.
She will open the conversation with a subject of her choice, to which you can respond appropriately. It is not considered courteous for you to ask her any questions, and you should address her as ma’am, which rhymes with jam, not harm.
Legend has it that they were never apart for more than a few hours.
The hour of triumph is not a time to belittle your rivals. Rather, it is a time to be magnanimous.
He recalled Old Jack’s words after he’d scored a century at Lord’s: anyone can be a good winner. The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat.
I’ll bet you can’t tell me who designed the garden. I’ll give you a clue: it’s later than the house.’ ‘I’ve only ever heard of one landscape gardener,’ said Harry, still staring at the house. ‘Capability Brown.’ ‘That’s exactly why we chose him,’ said Giles, ‘simply so that my friends would have heard of the fellow two hundred years later.’ Harry.
Fathers don’t ask their children’s permission to marry. In any case, I’m sure they’ll be delighted.
Nick Croft has.
I should have prepared you for a brand of snobbery that no other nation on earth can emulate.
Proust said, we all end up doing the thing we’re second best at.
We all have to be knowledgeable about something, and Cheddar is my specialty.
And the America Firsters would raise an almighty hue and cry.
Sir Alan Redmayne believed in the rule of law. It was, after all, the basis of any democracy. Whenever asked, Sir Alan agreed with Churchill that, as a form of government, democracy had its disadvantages, but, on balance, it remained the best on offer. But given a free hand, he would have opted for a benevolent dictatorship. The problem was that dictators, by their very nature, were not benevolent. It simply didn’t fit their job description.
You are so silly sometimes, Jess. I fell in love with you, and I don’t give a damn who your.
He remained silent for the rest of the journey, having been made painfully aware that birth is life’s first lottery ticket. Tom.