The Magic Pudding Quotes

“It’s a Magic Puddin”

“Shaving may add an air that’s somewhat brisker, For dignity, commend me to the whisker.”

″‘Apologies are totally inadequate,’ shouted Uncle Wattleberry. ‘Nothing short of felling you to the earth with an umbrella could possibly atone for the outrage.‘”

“Observed from behind, however, you completely lose sight of the whiskers, and so fail to realize how immensely important they are.”

“You have to be as smart as paint to keep this Puddin’ in order. He’s that artful, lawyers couldn’t manage him.”

“You can’t go about the world being nothing, but if are a traveller you have to carry a bag, while if you are a swagman, you have to carry a swag, and the question is: Which is the heavier?”

“I have everything I require, except food; but without food everything is rather less than nothing.”

“There’s nothing this Puddin’ enjoys more than offering slices of himself to strangers.”

″‘They’re after our Puddin’ exclaimed Sam, ‘because they’re professional puddin’-thieves.”

“This was a welcome suggestion, for, as all travellers know, if you don’t sit by a camp fire in the evening, you have to sit by nothing in the dark...”