Scoop Quotes
"Travel light and be prepared. Have nothing which in a case of emergency you cannot carry in your own hands. But remember the unexpected always happens."
"I make a point of never addressing my fellow travellers. Indeed I usually prefer to dine in the coupe. But this is not our first meeting."
"In the tropics one easily contracts disease of the skin."
"It is very dangerous. In the tropics one easily contracts disease of the skin."
"I have drunk quantities of it in my time without ever being seriously affected—and I have a particularly delicate stomach."
"The moment they recognize an Englishman they think they can make a monkey of him."
"It is a country of no interest. It is not rich at all. If it were rich it would already belong to England."
"Who built the Pyramids? A Negro. Who invented the circulation of the blood? A Negro."
"The patriotic cause in Ishmaelia is the cause of the coloured man and of the proletariat throughout the world."
"It was the act of an Englishman—a fellow Englishman."
"I try to let these things slip from my mind as one of the evanescent delights of travel."
"I hope that one day I shall have the opportunity of requiting it… I probably shall."
"I have a little pack of hounds in the Midlands. It is a little hobby of mine."
"Someone on this paper must know about cows," he said petulantly.
"Of course, naturally… had my eye on him for some time. Glad he made good."
"I will thank him personally… You never had any faith in that boy, Salter."
"There’s always a chance for real talent on the Beast, eh, Salter?"
"It is a matter I have particularly at heart. Boot has done admirably."
"The office is riddled with them. I shall make it my concern to see that Boot is substantially rewarded."
"I imagine that the expenses of an expedition of that kind will be heavy."
"The trouble is that it is the kind of story that may not break for two years."
"I don’t want to cheapen official honours among the staff."
"It will not cost us a penny. As I say, honours of this kind must be distributed with discretion but, properly used, they give a proper air of authority to the paper."
"I suppose I did have something to do with it."
"It’s hard to say yet… taken by surprise. But I think I am… In fact I know I am—Come to think of it, I’m very pleased indeed."
"I’ve seen it again and again since I’ve been in Fleet Street. It’s enough to make one cynical."
"You should welcome the success of your subordinates."
"The man who made journalistic history, Boot of the Beast, will tomorrow tell in his own inimitable way the inner story of his meteoric leap to fame."
"I had nothing except my youth, my will to succeed, and what—for want of a better word—must call my flair."
"‘Go and greet Boot,’ he said. ‘Give him a drink. Get him here before he signs on with the Brute.’ You wouldn’t want to sign on with the Brute, would you?"
"It must be wonderful to be like you," said Bateson wistfully. "At the top. It’s been a great chance my meeting you like this."
"I can see right. It be the corners do for I."
"You must tell us about it tomorrow. Your grandmother will want to hear, I know."