Darbishire Quotes

″...it’s going to be jolly awkward if we can’t print any news that’s got an ‘e’ in it.”

″‘But I vote we’re not allowed to vote for ourselves because my father says it’s swanking to blow your own trumpet.’ ‘All right, then. I’ll blow your trumpet, if you blow mine.‘”

“The only French sentence he could call to mind was a passage which had caused him some trouble in class the previous day. So far as he had been able to judge the translation was: ‘the gentleman who wears one green hat approaches himself all of a sudden.‘”

″‘I was only practicing my knots.’ ‘What knots?’ ‘You mean which knots- not what knots. Whatnots are something quite different.‘”

″‘And three parcels. The big one’s my cake and the square fat one’s probably Aunt Angela.’ Darbishire peered at the parcel, through dusty spectacles. ‘Don’t be crazy; she couldn’t be that shape unless she’d been cremated.‘”

“Of course, Darbishire was his best friend, and best friends are different. It would hardly be fair, he decided, to let a decent chap like old Darbi snooze away the precious minutes of a red-letter day like this.”

“Although Nature had never intended him for a man of action, loyalty to Jennings demanded that he should try his best to become one.”

“The had unearthed the sensational story of how Atkinson had found a caterpillar in his cabbage; but as it had happened the term before last, they felt that this could hardly be headlined as late news.”

“They’re a present. They think we came on board specially to ask for them and they’ll be as upset as two coots if we don’t take them with us.”