guardian Quotes

“The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.”

“Percy is the guardian in a big park and it’s cold in winter in the park. He puts on his warm coat and his big scarf, his warm gloves and his boots. Percy loves animals very much.”

“It looked that the Carters were pretending they were still in England.”

“Only the sanctimonious birds that perched on the church’s dome ever saw Smith’s progress entire, and as their beady eyes followed him, the chattered savagely, ‘Pick-pocket! Pick-pocket! Jug him! Jug-jug-jug him!’ as if they’d been appointed by the Town to save it from such as Smith.”

“The ordinary people in the street – partly, perhaps, because they are not sufficiently interested in ideas to be intolerant about them – still vaguely hold that “I suppose everyone’s got a right to their own opinion.” It is only, or at any rate it is chiefly, the literary and scientific intelligentsia, the very people who ought to be the guardians of liberty, who are beginning to despise it, in theory as well as in practice.”