You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive.
They’re terribly anxious to see him married, and they’re always gossiping. And then Mrs. Plowden said, He might do worse than look in his own kitchen, to my way of thinking. And Annie said, Aye, that’...
I was at Geelong Grammar. The Eton of Australia meant nothing to her.
When things like this happen there’s just nothing to be done about it; even suffering itself is a mere waste of time.
Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.
So let them pass, small people of no great significance, caught up and swept together like dead leaves in the great whirlwind of the war.
Many evils spring from power, he said. Even from the power to do good. All power corrupts, and the intention to do good has little influence on the corruption. Either my words will last after me and b...
It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback.
An American, a soldier of fortune by profession. Wherever there is trouble in the world the Dwights of all nations foregather. There are not very many of them, thirty or forty perhaps, and they are al...
A Congreve clock?’ Captain Petersen was puzzled. ‘It’s a clock that keeps time by a steel ball running on a zig-zag track down an inclined plane,’ Keith told him. ‘Only it doesn’t keep very good time....
The ringer looked at the girl’s bleeding face and at her bleeding feet. ‘Leave her alone, you bloody mucking bastards,’ he said angrily in his slow Queensland drawl. ‘I stole those mucking chickens, a...
The news did not trouble her particularly; all news was bad, like wage demands, strikes, or war, and the wise person paid no attention to it. What was important was that it was a bright, sunny day; he...
Men' s souls are naturally inclined to covetousness; but if ye be kind towards women and fear to wrong tgem, God is well acquainted with what ye do.
I have been asked sometimes what led me to the Persian Gulf, what instinct told me that I could build up a business there. It’s really perfectly simple. If you go to the hottest and most uncomfortable...
Her ideas about reporters had been moulded by the cinema; it was a surprise to her to find that in real life they could be kind and helpful people with good manners.
He was just entering the club ahead of me, a tall and rather emaciated man of about seventy, a little unsteady on his feet. He tripped over the doormat as he went in and stumbled forward; the hall por...
He could not elucidate it any further for her, and they drove on to the big hardware store. It had only a few customers, and very few assistants. They left the baby in the car and went through to the...
Americans are like that.’ The other stared at him incredulously. ‘It would cost a great deal of money to provide for a child, perhaps for years. One does not do that lightly for a foreign child of whi...
A little boy of five or six was standing there, in fact, utterly motionless. He was dressed in grey, grey stockings above the knee, grey shorts, and a grey jersey. He was standing absolutely still, st...
Spend the remainder of the day in the Library of the Patent Office. He will be home at Somerset Road, Ealing, in time for tea. He will spend the evening in the workshop, working on the current model....