With Clive in India Quotes

“It’s the size of the guns, not the size of the ship, that counts, my boy.”

“No, my business is to trade and not to fight.”

“If I don’t die in a fortnight I am to live to be a shrivelled old man. I’d rather take a happy medium, and look forward to coming back before my liver is all gone, or my temper all destroyed, with lots of money to make you and the girls comfortable.”

″‘I am myself unaccustomed to be kissed, but it is an operation to which I may accustom myself in time.’ ‘I never heard it called an operation, uncle,’ Lizzie said demurely, ‘but I now understand the meaning of the phrase of a man’s undergoing a painful operation.‘”

“Women are so emotional. Now there’s nothing I object to more than emotion.”

″‘I am myself unaccustomed to be kissed, but it is an operation to which I may accustom myself in time.’ ‘I never heard it called an operation, uncle,’ Lizzie said demurely, ‘but I now understand the meaning of the phrase of a man’s undergoing a painful operation.‘”