Quote by William Ritter

“His manner had the offensive jauntiness of the man who has had a cold bath when he might just as easily have had a…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“He was a blessing to all the juvenile part of the neighbourhood, for in summer he was for ever forming parties to eat cold…

— Jane Austen

“His was a lean excitable face with little bright eyes as evil as a frantic child's eyes. A cantankerous, complaining, mischievous, laughing face. He…

— John Steinbeck

“For a moment I felt a vicious hatred for him and his quiet ways, his mundane stroll through the summer, his ordinariness, the banality…

— Colum McCann

“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

— E. M. Forster

“And then there is the waiter. Not pathetic-decidedly not comic. Never making one of those perfectly insignificant remarks which amaze you so coming from…

— Katherine Mansfield

“He was a horrid-looking fellow. Fat as a pig he was, and his face was the colour of cottage cheese. His collar was unbuttoned…

— Brian Moore

“More often than not he wore jeans with at least half a dozen holes, flip-flops that made him look like he was heading to…

— Maya Banks

“Hurray', shouted Glokta. 'Porridge again!'He looked over at the motionless Practical. 'Porridge and honey, better than money, everything's funny, with porridge and honey!”

— Joe Abercrombie

“With each successive pint he found that he was enjoying himself significantly less; until now he was sitting and shivering on the sidewalk outside…

— Neil Gaiman

“He had a curiously stunted sense of humor and loved practical jokes that veered dangerously close to cruelty. Once on a hot day he…

— Bill Bryson