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F. Anstey
17 quotes
“Drastic measures is Latin for a whopping.”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two or three days at sea are equivalent to at least as many weeks on shore.”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was not a strong-minded man; but he had one quality which is almost as valuable a safeguard against temptation as strength of mind—namely, timidity.”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The knowledge that one has a remedy within reach is often as effectual as the remedy itself, if not more so.”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He had had a warning, a practical moral lesson which had merely arrived, as such things often do, rather after date.”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And you suppose that, knowing how I have changed, he will believe that!” she cried. “He will fire long before you can finish one of those fine sentences!”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Models of manly beauty are rare out of novels, and seldom interesting in them.”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Candour’s the cement of friendship.”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No doubt they would tolerate him now for the Professor’s sake; but who would not rather be ignored than tolerated?”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can’t call myself a busy man—unfortunately,” said Horace, with that frankness which scorns to conceal what other people know perfectly well already.”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No doubt the fault was mine,” said the Professor, in a tone that implied the opposite.”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wisely was it written: ‘Let him that desireth oblivion confer benefits—but the memory of an injury endureth for ever.’”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How excellent is the saying of one of old: ‘He that adventureth upon matrimony is like unto one who thrusteth his hand into a sack containing many thousands of serpents and one eel. Yet, if Fate so decree, he may draw forth the eel.’”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These statements were, as he felt even in making them, not only gratuitous, but utterly unconvincing, but he had arrived at that condition in which a man discovers with terror the unsuspected amount of mendacity latent in his system.”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou hast heard of her incomparable charms, and verily the ear may love before the eye.” ”It may,” admitted Horace, “but neither of my ears is the least in love at present.”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Veracity, as thou wilt learn,” answered the Jinnee, “is not invariably the Ship of Safety.”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He called to mind all the millionaires he had ever read or heard of; they didn’t seem to get much fun out of their riches. The majority of them were martyrs to dyspepsia. They were often weighed down by the cares and responsibilities of their position; the only people who were unable to obtain an audience of them at any time were their friends; they lived in a glare of publicity, and every post brought them hundreds of begging letters, and a few threats; their children were in constant danger from kidnappers, and they themselves, after knowing no rest in life, could not be certain that even their tombs would be undisturbed. Whether they were extravagant or thrifty, they were equally maligned, and, whatever the fortune they left behind them, they could be absolutely certain that, in a couple of generations, it would be entirely dissipated.”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source