If the chemists could ever come up with a bottle of something labelled ‘Self-Respect’ that actually worked, they could make millions, she thought.
I am silent in the club I am silent in the pub, I am silent on a bally peak in Darien; For I stuff away for life Shoving peas in with a knife, Because I am at heart a Vegetarian. No more the milk of c...
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. —William Hazlitt
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by. —Philips Brooks
Stomach
Agatha doubled her rates and then said, Of course, I halve them for a friend.
You always run to answer the bell, Agatha, and when you see me, your face always falls in disappointment, as if you were expecting someone else.
When love grows diseas’d, the best thing we can do is put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingring and consumptive passion. —Sir George Etherege
We’re supposed to get a whiff as we walk past you, not when we drive past you at sixty miles an hour.
Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world —Shakespeare
There’s one parish church for all the people, whatsoever may be their ranks in life or their degrees, Except for one damp, small, dark, freezing cold, little Methodist chapel of ease, And close by the...
I’ll feed the cats and give them some food.
Christmas had done its usual merry work of setting husband against wife, relative against relative, and spreading bad will among men in general. People looked overfed and hung over and desperately wor...
Did I say that? he asked, and then added in so low a voice that Alice could not hear what he was saying, If I said that then I am a very great fool indeed.
The arrest of Fergus Braid struck the village like a bombshell. Lesley, opening the newspaper the next day, found a photograph of him on the front page and a different story on the inside. highland bo...
Gets the horrors something dreadful. If a man has the DTs, isn’t it better to get him to the hospital? asked Hamish mildly.
Ellie lowered her voice dramatically. She was a black witch. I can still hear her dreadful laughter as I ran away. Elspeth translated this as—I said something silly and she began to laugh and I was of...
The other diners studied him with the polite frozen smiles the English use for threatening behaviour.
O fat white woman whom nobody loves —Frances Crofts Cornford
And being very young and capable of violent mood swings, she then began to worry about what to wear for dinner.
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