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Ernest Bramah Quotes

1868–1942 England

Ernest Brammah Smith (March 20, 1868 – June 23, 1942) was the author of a series of stories about Kai Lung, a Chinese storyteller, and was also the creator of the blind detective Max Carrados. He wrote under the pseudonym Ernest Bramah.

England
Novelists
Short story writers

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23 quotes

Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.

The Wallet of Kai Lung (1900)

"When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly."

Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree (1940)

The one-legged never stumble.

Kai Lung's Golden Hours (1922)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ernest Bramah (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.