
“It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”
Blandings Castle (1935)
Source: The Mark of Athena
“It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”
Blandings Castle (1935)
Ce qui fait le poète, n'est-ce pas l'amour, la recherche désespérée du moindre rayon de soleil d'autrefois jouant sur le parquet d'une chambre d'enfant?
Préséances (1921), cited from Oeuvres romanesques, vol.1 (Paris: Flammarion, 1965) p. 301; Gerard Hopkins (trans.) Questions of Precedence (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1958) p. 46.
Sergeant Barret and Major Richard Sharpe, p. 273
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Honor (1985)
“If you go beyond the clouds, you will get endless sunshine.”