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Quotes from The Brass Bottle — F. Anstey

1856–1934 England

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I can’t call myself a busy man—unfortunately,” said Horace, with that frankness which scorns to conceal what other people know perfectly well already.

The Brass Bottle (1900)

No doubt they would tolerate him now for the Professor’s sake; but who would not rather be ignored than tolerated?

The Brass Bottle (1900)

Models of manly beauty are rare out of novels, and seldom interesting in them.

The Brass Bottle (1900)

“Veracity, as thou wilt learn,” answered the Jinnee, “is not invariably the Ship of Safety.”

The Brass Bottle (1900)

“No doubt the fault was mine,” said the Professor, in a tone that implied the opposite.

The Brass Bottle (1900)

“Wisely was it written: ‘Let him that desireth oblivion confer benefits—but the memory of an injury endureth for ever.’”

The Brass Bottle (1900)

“Thou hast heard of her incomparable charms, and verily the ear may love before the eye.”
”It may,” admitted Horace, “but neither of my ears is the least in love at present.”

The Brass Bottle (1900)

Candour’s the cement of friendship.

The Brass Bottle (1900)

“How excellent is the saying of one of old: ‘He that adventureth upon matrimony is like unto one who thrusteth his hand into a sack containing many thousands of serpents and one eel. Yet, if Fate so decree, he may draw forth the eel.’”

The Brass Bottle (1900)

These statements were, as he felt even in making them, not only gratuitous, but utterly unconvincing, but he had arrived at that condition in which a man discovers with terror the unsuspected amount of mendacity latent in his system.

The Brass Bottle (1900)

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