Quotes
Whenever a liberal begins a statement with "I don't know which is more frightening," you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.
p. 6
"I was saying precisely that to my wife this morning at breakfast."
"And what did she say?"
"I think she said Yes dear, and went on making a list for her shopping. But that's beside the point…"
Important rule of professorcraft: never show resentment at a student insult — wait and get them later.
They did not murmur the [ Canadian ] national prayer: "O God, grant me mediocrity and comfort; protect me from the radiance of Thy light."
I think he expected me to agree enthusiastically, but I didn't. Nor did I contradict him; I have had too much experience of life to attempt to tell a really rich person anything.
It was a philosophy deformed by that disease so fatal to philosophers – personal experience.
Civilization rests on two things...the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civilized occasion be without both?
During the first day or two she attempted to get on with War and Peace, but found it depressing, and as time wore on she suffered from that sense of unworthiness which attacks sensitive people who have been rebuffed by a classic.
I had known him for years in a casual way, but I had never seen very deeply into him. He seemed to me to have more conscience than is good for any man. A powerful conscience and no sense of humour — a dangerous combination.
His reply had that clarity, objectivity and reasonableness which is possible only to advisers who have completely missed the point.
"I'm getting on with the work that will eventually make me a Doctor of Philosophy."
"Ah, that blessed degree that stamps us for life as creatures of guaranteed intellectual worth."
"A pretty girl is like a melody," hummed Roger. "Excuse me," said Cobbler, turning toward him, "but I must contradict you. A pretty girl is nothing of the kind. A melody, if it is any good, has a discernible logic; a pretty girl can exist without the frailest vestige of sense."
