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All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XXIIIIn context
- Power
Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome superabundance of that sort of time which is not money.
Mark Twain1835–1910The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Chapter XXVIn context
- Money
- Time
“The horror of that moment,” the King went on, “I shall never, never forget!”
“You will, though,” the Queen said, “if you don’t make a memorandum of it.”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter IIn context
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter IIn context
- Poetry
“O Tiger-lily,” said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, “I wish you could talk!”
“We can talk,” said the Tiger-lily: “when there’s anybody worth talking to.”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter IIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Talking
“Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter IVIn context
- Thinking
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday⁠—but never jam to-day.
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter VIn context
- Time
You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafés.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book II, Chapter 12In context
- Work
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend to you a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book II, Chapter XVIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Health
Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part II, Episode 6In context
Shakespeare is the happy huntingground of all minds that have lost their balance.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part II, Episode 10In context
- Clever Jabs
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (2 of 3)In context
- Clever Jabs
- Patriotism
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput, Chapter IVIn context
- War & Peace
You have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied, by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag, Chapter VIIn context
I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag, Chapter VIIn context
- Clever Jabs