Uncle Quotes

″‘Do you think we’re going to leave this bath now?’ said Beaver Hateman, going menacingly to to Uncle. ‘Yes, I do!’ ‘Well, you’re jolly well wrong! I’m going to stay here all night, if I want to!‘”

“People have long memories for such deeds in a great person.”

“At Cheapman’s, instead of your tipping the waiter, he gives you a present.”

“Uncle is an elephant. He’s immensely rich, and he’s a B.A. He dresses well, generally, in a purple dressing gown, and often rides on a traction engine, which he prefers to a car.”

″...I think you are going too far in your craze for shoes. Shoes are good things, but we should not make them the sole object of life.”

“For instance, he used when he was young to find it difficult to tell the truth always, but he wasn’t a very clever liar, because he couldn’t help blowing softly through his trunk when he was telling a lie...”

“It’s rather hard when you have a splendid house yourself that the chief view from your windows should be that of your enemy’s dingy fortress, but this had to be endured...”

“They are jealous of him, and are delighted when they discover anything against him.”

“The Old Monkey’s uncle is called the Muncle and he’s a very nice person, but seems to live for footwear. Uncle likes him, but thinks he is a bit too fussy about shoes.”

“He was secretly laughing because Uncle had fallen over a tree trunk, and one tusk was fast in the ground.”