Stephen Potter Quotes

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• Remember the basic rule. Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. How true this is. It is easy to…
• Never say the number because it suggest that you are unable to pronounce the name of the wine you are ordering.
• Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the…
• Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between…
• In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly…
• Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have the upper hand.
• Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond. "That's an easy…
• Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you.
• If your friend says of some picture, Yes, but what does it mean? ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his…
• In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond 'no comment' with some degree of knowledge
• A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.

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