“Wretched game, cricket, keeping romantic youths out in the sun when they should be indoors, applying balm to the foreheads of feverish… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.” — Saki Copy Share Image
“Higgledy piggledy, my black hen, She lays eggs for gentlemen. Gentlemen come every day To count what my black hen doth lay.… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“Beetroot Cossins had moved to Kuala Lumpur where she had died of lethargy and pie.” — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I attended a breakfast meeting with Fielding...half way through...the cork of nausea abruptly popped in my throat. I only just made it… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired,' said Maxie. 'I know how that feels,' said Blue. 'I think some Pharaoh… — Charlie Higson Copy Share Image
I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous. — Bahman Ghobadi Copy Share Image
“they were very scary times [1982], Midge Ure dancing with tears in his eyes. That German girl with the hairy arm pits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you're conscious of what you're permitting to germinate inside you, the weeds in your life will wither away of their own… — Lawrence Shorter Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Rebellion is all we'll be talking about. Love is revolution, a kind of coup d'état and cultural reprogramming in its own little… — The Harvard Lampoon Copy Share Image
“She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Cave basilischium! The rex of serpenti, tant pleno of poison that it all shines dehors! Che dicam, il veleno, even the stink… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force,… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“Dios mio, I think my brother lost his balls somewhere between here and Mexico. Or maybe Brittany has them zipped inside that… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
“Are we making a bomb?" "This is a trust exercise, like in drama," she says. "Are we making a bomb as a… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
“I woke up when my pillow was yanked out from under my head and Chloe mumbled something incoherent about spinach and hot… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“I stared in awe at the Lincoln Memorial. If Honest Abe had come to life and somehow managed to lift his bony… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“As the year goes on, certain deputies—and others, high in public life—will appear unshaven, without coat or cravat; or they will jettison… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I don't think it's aiming at gags, I think the humour is woven into it. It's part of how the characters operate… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
