Explore Book Quotes

“He was very happy because he was a wealthy and hard-working man. But one day he became sick, and the doctors old him that only a trip to the country could cure him.”

“I can see rope nets, cable bridges, a wall of logs, things to crawl over, and things to crawl under. ‘Somehow,’ I say, ‘I can’t see Ms. Radcliff breaking any world records on that stuff.”

Up he got, groped his way to the piano, laid a kind hand on either of the broad shoulders, and said, as gently as a woman, “I know, my boy, I know.”

“Try to explain the art of starving to someone! Those who have no feel for it can never be made to understand.”

“Of all the beasts in the world, I’m the best! On land, and on sea... even up in the sky no animal lives who is better than I!”

“Oh, how long Me seems it, ere the promis’d help arrive!”

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears; What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”

“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

“Well, you would not believe what noises there are in the garden at night.”