I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting….

The Wild Hunt is known in all Celtic countries; it is a huntsman with a pack of hounds who is seen or heard to rush through the country. Those who se….

Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give u….

The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and….

"Children, don't speak so coarsely," said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, an….

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is….

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and sto….

Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has no….

One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionarie….

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving sc….

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons..

The reclusive man who marries the gregarious woman, the timid woman who marries the courageous man, the idealist who marries the realist we can all s….

You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's..

I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage..

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive.

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object..

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people..

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man..

Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the spark….

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery..

In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend..