“Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?”

“I was charging fifty rupees for arguing for fifteen minutes while a labourer was getting only three-quarters of a Rupee for twelve hours of toil. That was what was eating into me.”

“Morals are three-quarters manners.”

“This drawing is three quarters ball, one quarter philosopher, which might be about the right space to keep a philosopher in his place.”

“It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live.”

“And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”

“Cricket's all right in spite of the newspapers, but the trouble is that three quarters of us don't know how to use our own gifts.”

“Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.”

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”

“But I make a profit of three and a quarter cents an egg by selling them for four and a quarter cents an egg to the people in Malta I buy them from for seven cents an egg. Of course, I don't make the profit. The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share.”