More by F. Anstey
“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)
Two or three days at sea are equivalent to at least as many weeks on shore.
Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885)
He had had a warning, a practical moral lesson which had merely arrived, as such things often do, rather after date.
Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885)
He was not a strong-minded man; but he had one quality which is almost as valuable a safeguard against temptation as strength of mind—namely, timidity.
Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885)
“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)
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