There is nothing that interests me more than travel, I declare; and if I had had my health, I should have been a great traveller, a second–a second–St Paul?No, no. A second Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.
It’s all along of the unicorn’s horn – it’s all along of the glorious hand. Huzzay, three times huzzay for the doctor!’Lord, how they cheered their surgeon! It was he who had brought the narwhal’s tus...
Invincible ignorance could not be enlightened; and
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I am so sorry,' she said. 'I will try to do better now.'Alas for the word. The adagio called for subtle phrasing, and it called in vain: she cast him several apologetic looks until a particularly wild...
It would be the Devil to pay and no pitch hot
What was independence but a word? What did any form of government matter? Freedom: to do what?
Stephen had been put to sleep in his usual room, far from children and noise, away in that corner of the house which looked down to the orchard and the bowling-green, and in spite of his long absence...
Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.
Oh, there you are. I was afraid you had gone off to your stoats again. The carrier has brought you an ape.’ ‘What sort of an ape?’ asked Stephen. ‘A damned ill-conditioned sort of an ape.
Let us drink to the renewed success of Irish arms, and confusion to the Pope.
It would be strange if the weather-gage had to be explained to so old a sea-dog; though I must confess that there was a time when I confused it with that thing which creaks on the roof, showing which...
It was quite unlike their friendly discourse of some days before, and presently Stephen grew sadly bored: lies or half-lies, he reflected, had a certain value in that they gave a picture of what the m...
It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon perpetually five miles ahead, never nearer.
Almost ready, sir,' said the sweating, harassed bosun. 'I'm working the cunt-splice myself.''Well,' said Jack, hurrying off to where the stern-chaser hung poised above the Sophie's quarter-deck, ready...
But there was another factor that had not come into play when they marched down to Suez in the darkness - by day the vast expanse of desert, perfectly level in every direction, offered no shelter for...
Why, the devil, do you see,' said Jack, 'is the seam between the deck-planking and the timbers, and we call it the devil, because it is the /devil/ for the caulkers to come at: in full we say, the dev...
Whereas I had not meant anything so illiberal as a national reflexion, of course; only that I hated Papists.
Stephen, what is the French for a double sister-block, coaked? With a pair of them and a proper hold-fast, I could raise the Temple.''A double sister-block, coaked? The Dear alone can tell. I do not e...