The Swish of the Curtain Quotes

“It was my ambition to stand on my head properly, and I’ve done it, so I needn’t have another one.”

″‘I want to go to art school and learn commercial art, but Dad wants me to be a barrister.’ ‘That’s like me,’ put in Jeremy. ‘I want to study music, but I’ve got to go into father’s office.‘”

″‘Why is it,’ asked Sandra, exasperated, ‘that whenever you go near water you get your feet wet?’ ‘I suppose my feet are attractive to water.’

“Maddy squeezed Jeremy’s arm sympathetically, for she knew it was hard for him to hear that this poor specimen would have the opportunity that he longed for in vain.”

″‘Life,’ she puffed sadly, ‘is just one thing after another.‘”

″‘The uses of the sticks are various,’ she ended, as she scrunched up the last piece of the bright red sweet. ‘One can use them as nail cleaners, or for sticking in the ground, or even for sticking into people.‘”

″‘Is she nice?’ ‘Yes, and she thinks we are, so we always try and keep up appearances when we see her.’

“Jerry, if a baby giant panda were very large would he be a giant baby giant panda?”

“I feel sick, and if I pedal much harder my bike will take to the air and fly.”

“I’m quite happy being what I am at the moment.”