Swallows And Amazons Quotes
"Better drowned than duffers if not duffers won’t drown."
"It was their island. It was the island, waiting for them."
"You can’t see it from anywhere, even from the island. It’s the finest harbour anybody ever had."
"I don’t believe there is a better harbour in the world."
"He’s got a cannon," said Roger. "Look, look!"
"We’ll make a chart of our own," said John, "and every year we’ll put in the part we have explored until we know it all."
"Swallows and Amazons for ever, and death to Captain Flint!"
"You’ll see better than bats in a minute. Sit you down on yon bed."
"Someone has to be with the fire night and day, to keep him down like."
"We mustn't touch anything but tea when we get back. Come on, Roger."
"Captain Flint taught us, last year when he was Uncle Jim, before he went bad."
"Thunder and lightning," said Nancy Blackett, "what a chance we missed."
"You wouldn’t think I was as old as all that. But I’m Old Billy and he’s Young Billy."
"Once he’s got a good hold you can cover a fire up."
"If you want a fire to last, cover him with clods of earth."
"Eh! Eh! And now she’s a grown woman with two lasses of her own."
"We must hold a council with the Amazon pirates."
"You take the treasure out and sink the galleon."
"How would you like someone to come and let off a firework in your boat?"
"Now, Mister Mate, lay to your oars," said Captain John. "There’s still light enough to find her if we’re quick."
"All clear," she said. "They’ve gone up river. That’ll give us a bit more start. Come on."
"Safe enough now," she said. "I’m going to step the mast."
"Now then, my hearties," said Captain Nancy as she clambered aft. "Wild Cat Island and Amazons for ever! We’ve done them fairly brown."
"Twenty-five years ago this day I was wrecked on this desolate place. Wind south-west. Sea slight. Fog at dawn."
"All the while I was at work," wrote Robinson Crusoe, "I diverted myself with talking to my parrot, and teaching him to speak."
"Bother Captain Flint," she said out loud, and put the book away and went up to the look-out place with the telescope.
"I’m sure I beg pardon, Miss Ruth," said the policeman, turning redder than ever. "I thought they’d know something about the burglary if anybody did."
"Gaskets and bowlines," said Captain Nancy, "you needn’t tell me that. What puzzles me is why he should think you did."
"Never lock anything up, Polly, and you'll never lose it."
"All the king's horses and all the king's men won't put Humpty Dumpty together again."
"By Jove! so it was those young harum-scarums all the time."
"I’m not a snake," he said, "I can’t get along without feet."
"They’d be down before now if they were coming," said Susan.
"It’s getting smaller and smaller," he said. "It’s spilling the stones out of the pockets."
"Our tent has its back to the wind," she said.
"We haven’t been able to boil a kettle yet," said Susan.
"He’s given me a parrot," said Able-seaman Titty.
"I’ve brought a dry change for each of you four."
"Luckily there was one in one of the boats," said Nancy.
"We’ll be grown up, and then we’ll live here all the year round."