Arthur Ransome Quotes

Arthur Michell Ransome was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. The books remain popular and Swallows and Amazons is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake.

He also wrote about the literary life of London, and about Russia before, during, and after the revolutions of 1917. His connection with the leaders of the Revolution led to him providing information to the Secret Intelligence Service, while he was also suspected of being a Soviet spy by MI5.

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✵ 18. January 1884 – 3. June 1967

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Winter Holiday

Winter Holiday

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Swallowdale

Swallowdale

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Missee Lee

Missee Lee

Arthur Ransome

Swallows and Amazons

Swallows and Amazons

Arthur Ransome

Great Northern?

Great Northern?

Arthur Ransome

We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea

Arthur Ransome

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Famous Arthur Ransome Quotes

“Only, the beastly Arctic won't freeze”

Arthur Ransome book Winter Holiday

Winter Holiday (Chapter 3), 1933

“What's hit's history: what's missed's mystery.”

Arthur Ransome book Great Northern?

Great Northern? (Chapter 9), 1947

“Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.”

Arthur Ransome book We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea

We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (Title page and Chapter 2), 1937

“When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.”

Arthur Ransome book Swallowdale

Swallowdale (Chapter 8), 1931

“They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.”

Arthur Ransome book Swallowdale

Swallowdale (Chapter 4), 1931

“Softly, at first, as if it hardly meant it, the snow began to fall.”

Arthur Ransome book Winter Holiday

Winter Holiday (Chapter 5), 1933

Arthur Ransome Quotes

“A pigeon a day keeps the natives away”

Arthur Ransome

Pigeon Post Title page and Chapter 4), 1936

“Houses, are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of gay transition. I admit, doubtfully, as exceptions, snail-shells and caravans. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting-place.”

Arthur Ransome

Racundra's First Cruise (Chapter 1), 1923

Youth , World , Idea , Thinking

“A lot of things were lucky," said Daddy, and suddenly, while they were walking along, brought his hand down on John's shoulder and gave it a bit of a squeeze. "You'll be a seaman yet, my son." And John, for one dreadful moment, felt that something was going wrong with his eyes. A sort of wetness, and hotness… Partly salt… Pleased though he was, he found himself biting his lower lip pretty hard, and looking the other way.”

Arthur Ransome

Way

“She's got a rum job, but she knows how to do it, and to have a job and know how to do it is one of the best things in this life. And if only she stops hankering after Cambridge…”

Arthur Ransome book Missee Lee

Missee Lee (Chapter 26), 1941

Life

“BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.”

Arthur Ransome book Swallows and Amazons

Swallows and Amazons (Chapter 1), 1930

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