You’ll remember Mark Twain’s comment about his father,” said Beth as they stepped off the bus. “’When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he’d learned in seven years.
I watched Hugo Barrington when he gave his evidence. The same self-confidence, the same arrogance, the same half-truths spouted convincingly to the jury, just as he’d whispered them to me in the privacy of the bedroom.
Steve mellon had told him that love was for poor suckers, and Richard had written on his steamed-up shaving mirror that morning, ‘I must be penniless.
Accept nothing, Believe no one, Challenge everything. It’s the only law I live by.
Clifton, in life you get what you deserve, no more and certainly no less.
But Beverly warned, Sasha, civilized as the British are, you shouldn’t assume that just because you’re clever, they will accept you as one of them. There are many who are suspicious of a first-class mind, while others will make a judgment based not on the words you say, but the accent in which they’re pronounced. – Dr. Streator.
When a woman shows some leadership,’ said Maisie, ’she’s immediately branded as bossy, but when a man does exactly the same thing, he’s described as decisive, and a born leader.
Deakins is in my class but, frankly, he’s in a different class.
Challenge every writ, and let it not be said of you, I walked a path but never left an imprint.
A police uniform, he was warned by the commander on his first day on parade, could change a person’s personality, and not always for the better.
Stevie, don’t get cross, get even.
To be allowed to pursue a career of his own choosing, and not just be expected to follow in his father’s footsteps.
There were two good reasons why Kelley preferred to thumb a ride back to Stanford rather than take a bus or train. Twelve round trips a year meant she could save over a hundred dollars, which her father could ill afford after being laid off by the water company. In any case he and Ma had already made quite enough sacrifices to.
All seemed to be in order. The boy had two legs, two arms, ten fingers, ten toes. Richard.
I have experienced both triumph and disaster, and, to quote Kipling, have treated those two imposters just the same.
Winston Churchill had once told him, “An important speech should take an hour to write for every minute it took to deliver, while at the same time, dear boy, you must leave your audience convinced it was off the cuff.
Wellington wrote in his memoirs,’ said Old Jack, ’that the worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of battle.
He was, in the words of H. H. Munro, a man whose looks made it possible for women to forgive any other trifling inadequacies.
Naturally, some of the passengers begin to panic. Several of them leap out into the dimly lit tunnel.
1 say to the leaders of this great country, why not allow your people the same privileges we in the West take for granted? You can start by releasing Anatoly Babakov and allowing his book to be published. That is, if you have nothing to fear from the torch of freedom. 1 will not rest until 1 can buy a copy of Uncle Joe at Hatchards on Piccadilly, Doubleday on Fifth Avenue, Dymocks in Sydney, and George’s bookshop in Park Street, Bristol.