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humour - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.
P.G. Wodehouse
The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.
P.G. Wodehouse
I don't know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I'm telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.
P.G. Wodehouse
Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.
Mary Roach
US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army.
Hilary Mantel
I think back to those days after the Bastille fell, the Mercure Nationale run from the back of the shop, that little Louise sticking her well-bred nose in the air and flouncing off to bawl out their printer-and you know, he was a good lad, François. I'd say, 'Go and do this, this, this, go and tie some bricks to your boots and jump in the Seine,' and he'd- Danton touched an imaginary forelock-'right away, Georges-Jacques, and do you need any shopping while I'm out?' Jesus, what a way to end up. When you see him, tell him I'd be obliged if he forgets he knows me.
Hilary Mantel
May 29, the Central Committee of the Sections goes into "permanent session" - what a fine, crisis-ridden sound it has, that term!
Hilary Mantel
The Robespierre women {as one tended to think of them now} were all on display. Madame looked actively, rather intimidatingly benevolent; it was her aim in life to find a Jacobin who was hungry, then to go into the kitchen and make extravagant efforts, and say, "I have fed a patriot!".
Hilary Mantel
But just as everything was going along politely, quietly and wonderfully - in poured Citizen Danton and his crew.
Hilary Mantel
This may interest you. A letter from my dear cousin Fouquier-Tinville." Camille cast an eye over his relative's best handwriting. "Squirm, flattery, abasement, squirm, dearest sweetest Camille, squirm squirm squirm … 'the election of the Patriot Ministers … I know them all by reputation, but I am not so happy as to be known by them
Hilary Mantel
I do no damage. This is damage, this."He picked up a paper from Camille's desk. "I can't read your writing, but I take it the general tenor is that Brissot should go and hang himself.
Hilary Mantel
Mirabeau: If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our seats only at bayonet point. The King can cause us to be killed; tell him we all await death; but he need not hope that we shall separate until we have made the constitution.Audible only to his neighbor, he adds, If they come, we bugger off, quick.
Hilary Mantel
Georges told me he would be back, and I have no reason to disbelieve him-but perhaps you'd like to sit down here and write him a letter? Tell him you can't manage the thing without him, which is true. Tell him Robespierre says he can't get along without him. And when you're done, you might go and find Robespierre and ask him to call. He is such a steadying influence when Camille is killing himself.
Hilary Mantel
People said- though this felt like a heresy- that they had seen Camille make Robespierre laugh.
Hilary Mantel
Of course I have had to rearrange the text a bit- bugger about with it, as Hébert would say.
Hilary Mantel
He looks at Norris, exasperated. He seems to think that with eloquence, with sincerity, with frankness, he can change what is happening. The whole court has seen him slobbering over the queen. How could he expect to go shopping with his eyes, and finger the goods no doubt, and not have an account to settle at the end of it?
Hilary Mantel
A pottery outside Paris was turning out his picture on thick glazed crockery in a strident yellow and blue. This is what happens when you become a public figure; people eat their dinners off you.
Hilary Mantel
Just think, she said to herself. I could be living on the Right Bank. I could be married to a senior clerk at the Treasury. I could be sitting with my feet up, embroidering a linen handkerchief with a rambling-rose design. Instead I'm on the rue des Cordeliers in pursuit of a baguette, with a three-inch blade for comfort.
Kelley Armstrong
The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.
Kelley Armstrong
I can just imagine what the humidity has done to my hair. I'm going to meet your family looking like a poodle with a live wire shoved up its butt. - Paige Winterbourne
Kelley Armstrong
I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Got to say, dying would really wreck my best day. Been there, done that, and now that I think about it, Artemis forgot to give me the t-shirt.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings
Susan Cooper
Funny,' Will said, as they picked their way through. 'Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling.
Georgette Heyer
In a nobler age one could have answered such impertinence by jostling his lordship as he stood holding open the door, so that he would have been obliged to demand a meeting. Or did one, even in that age, refrain from jostling people in doorways when a lady was present?
Georgette Heyer
You were not acquainted with my father, Mr Morville. I have often been sorry that you were not, for you would have been excessively pleased with one another. My father was a great reader, though not, of course, during the hunting-season.
Georgette Heyer
A jaw like a mastiff's, a frame like a giant's, eyes like two daggers, a smile like a tiger's snarl,Bernard murmured.Aye, he is all that!! Master Herbert said.A murrain be on him! And when I came to him,what did I do? I did bow in all politeness, yet stiffly withal to show him I'd not brook his surliness.I did hear ye did bow so low that your head came below your knees,Bernard said.
Georgette Heyer
She sighed and leaned her cheek against his shoulder. How comfortable this is! she said. And so delightfully vulgar! Does plain Mr Dash put his arm round ladies in hackney coaches?When not in gaol he does, the Duke responded.
Roald Dahl
The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.
Jodi Picoult
Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.
Stephen Clarke
Philippe also brought along musicians - mainly trumpeters and drummers - to scare the enemy. Even then, French music was known to terrify the English.
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