Jennings Quotes

“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.”

″‘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.‘”

“Jennings was a lively, impulsive boy with a wide-awake look in his eyes and a briskness about his movements. He had a flair for being in the swim- and some times out of his depth- when any unexpected splash ruffled the smooth waters of boarding school life.”

″‘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 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.”

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