Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.
Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven. - Alice Thomas Ellis
Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
- Alice Thomas Ellis
things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse. - Alice Thomas Ellis
things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.
I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I … - Alice Thomas Ellis
I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I …
I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here… - Alice Thomas Ellis
I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here…
The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because… - Alice Thomas Ellis
The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because…
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important … - Alice Thomas Ellis
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important …
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence. - Alice Thomas Ellis
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and wha… - Alice Thomas Ellis
It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and wha…
Evil and laughter cannot co-exist. - Alice Thomas Ellis
Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.
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