F. Anstey Quotes

Thomas Anstey Guthrie was an English novelist and journalist, who wrote his comic novels under the pseudonym F. Anstey.

✵ 8. August 1856 – 10. March 1934
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Famous F. Anstey Quotes

“Two or three days at sea are equivalent to at least as many weeks on shore.”

F. Anstey

Prologue
Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885)

““Thou hast heard of her incomparable charms, and verily the ear may love before the eye.”
”It may,” admitted Horace, “but neither of my ears is the least in love at present.””

F. Anstey

Source: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 14, “Since There’s No Help, Come, Let Us Kiss and Part!”

“He had had a warning, a practical moral lesson which had merely arrived, as such things often do, rather after date.”

F. Anstey

Source: Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885), Chapter 3, “The Third Cheque”

F. Anstey Quotes

“Models of manly beauty are rare out of novels, and seldom interesting in them.”

F. Anstey

Source: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 1, “Horace Ventimore Receives a Commission”

“No doubt they would tolerate him now for the Professor’s sake; but who would not rather be ignored than tolerated?”

F. Anstey

Source: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 3, “An Unexpected Opening”

“Candour’s the cement of friendship.”

F. Anstey

Source: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 1, “Horace Ventimore Receives a Commission”

“Veracity, as thou wilt learn,” answered the Jinnee, “is not invariably the Ship of Safety.”

F. Anstey

Source: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 17, “High Words”

“Wisely was it written: ‘Let him that desireth oblivion confer benefits—but the memory of an injury endureth for ever.”

F. Anstey

Source: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 4, “At Large”

““No doubt the fault was mine,” said the Professor, in a tone that implied the opposite.”

F. Anstey

Source: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 3, “An Unexpected Opening”

“Drastic measures is Latin for a whopping.”

F. Anstey book Vice Versa

Vice Versa, Ch.7

“The knowledge that one has a remedy within reach is often as effectual as the remedy itself, if not more so.”

F. Anstey

Source: Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885), Chapter 2, “The Second Cheque”

“And you suppose that, knowing how I have changed, he will believe that!”

F. Anstey

she cried. “He will fire long before you can finish one of those fine sentences!”
Source: Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885), Chapter 8, “Paid in His Own Coin”

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