“It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”
P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author
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.”
P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author
Blandings Castle (1935)
Francois Mauriac book Questions of Precedence
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.
“No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.”
Jack London book Call of the Wild
Source: The Call of the Wild
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
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.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author