Compulsion is the death of friendship.
Boccherini,
A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; the thoughts flashed into being in a hundred simultaneous forms, with a thousand associations, and the...
The education of the young gentlemen aboard is almost all a matter of trigonometry: even of algebra, Heaven preserve us.
Where there was no equality there was no companionship: when a man was obliged to say ‘Yes, sir,’ his agreement was of no worth even if it happened to be true.
What are bashed neeps?Neeps hackit with balmagowry.
Wallis,' said Maturin, 'I am happy to see you. How is your penis?
Sure, it is weak and illiberal to speak slightingly of any considerable body of men; yet it so happens that the only judges I have known have been froward companions, and it occurs to me that not only...
Love, sorrow, and wealth are the three things that cannot be concealed.
I slept as the person in Plutarch that ran from Marathon to Athens without a pause would have slept if he had not fallen dead, the creature.
Borborygmus,
They dismissed the imperfect subjunctive with perfect indifference on either side, and Jack, his imagination now somewhat heated, was speaking of the gossip that concerned them. In spite of her imperf...
There is something wonderfully comfortable about having a lady's legs under one's table, Aubrey.
Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.
Oh, the odious wench. How I wish I were rid of her. I have always loathed women, from clew to earring; hook, line and sinker; root and branch. I always said this would happen, you remember; I was agai...
Mr Mowett,' called Stephen in the pause while the table was clearing to make room for the pudding, and pudding-wine—in this case Frontignan and Canary—was handing about, 'you were telling me about you...
Or there will be wigs on the green.
Cunt-splice
They were looking after themselves, living with rigid economy; and there was no greater proof of their friendship than the way their harmony withstood their very grave differences in domestic behaviou...
These Danes have always been a very froward people. Do you know, Jack, what they did at Clonmacnois? They burnt it, the thieves, and their queen sat on the high altar mother-naked, uttering oracles in...