Decline And Fall Quotes
"It is the sound of the English county families baying for broken glass."
"There is some very particular port in the senior common room cellars that is only brought up when the College fines have reached £50."
"Oh, please God, make them attack the Chapel."
"We shall have a week of it at least, a week of Founder’s port."
"I think Partridge will be one; he possesses a painting by Matisse or some such name."
"For two years he had lived within his allowance, aided by two valuable scholarships."
"He smoked three ounces of tobacco a week—John Cotton, Medium—and drank a pint and a half of beer a day."
"They always attack their rooms. I hope they have been wise enough to go out for the evening."
"That’s the public school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down."
"It doesn’t do to rely on one’s own feelings, does it, not in anything?"
"I understand that it is in greater fastidiousness rather than in greater self-control that the future progress of the race lies."
"It was a lovely evening. They broke up Mr. Austen’s grand piano, and stamped Lord Rending’s cigars into his carpet."
"God bless my soul, if it isn’t Grimes of Podger’s! What’s all this nonsense about a court-martial?"
"I can’t help thinking that it is in greater fastidiousness rather than in greater self-control that the future progress of the race lies."
"The only perfect building must be the factory, because that is built to house machines, not men."
"I hate and detest every bit of it. Nothing I have ever done has caused me so much disgust."
"All ill comes from man. Man is never beautiful; he is never happy except when he becomes the channel for the distribution of mechanical forces."
"What do you take to make you sleep? I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early."
"Those that live by the flesh shall perish by the flesh."
"My dear man, we were just saying how much we missed you. Come and sit down."
"That chimney still smokes when the wind's in the east, but we haven't rebuilt it yet."
"I can't think of anything more bourgeois and awful than timbered Tudor architecture."
"I think he's a man worth watching. He was in Moscow at one time and in the Bauhaus at Dessau."
"But now I’ve lived with that man for a week, I feel quite different. I feel half ashamed of myself all the time."
"Rest, rest and riches... it's only after forty one begins to value things of that kind."
"It’s a dog’s life, and there’s no money in it, either."
"Aim high has been my motto... aim above, and with luck you score."
"It’s not everyone’s taste, but I think you’ll be comfortable."
"I sometimes think of marrying old Maltravers, just to get my own back."
"I can’t bear to think of you going back to that awful school."
"The less I valued his house, the less I ought to have paid, surely?"
"People talk a great deal of nonsense about being rich."
"The whole point about the wheel is that you needn’t get on it at all, if you don’t want to."
"There are various sorts of hell, but that young woman can beat up a pretty lively one of her own."
"I often wonder whether I am blameless in the matter."
"You’re drinking rather a lot these days, aren’t you, Peter?"
"People get hold of ideas about life, and that makes them think they’ve got to join in the game, even if they don’t enjoy it."
"Why should the Chaplain want me to mention the library to Margot?" he wondered.
"It’s so difficult writing to you because, you know, I never can write letters."
"I suppose not," said Paul, "only you were part of it all."
"Poor ole chap!" said the surgeon. "Poor, poor l'il girl!"
"People may think as they like about well-thumbed favorites, but there is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand-new book."