WIST Quotations

Anstey, F. -- The Brass Bottle, ch. 1 “Horace Ventimore Receives a Commission” (1900)

Dave — Wed, 01 May 2024 23:03:02 +0000

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

F. Anstey (1856-1934) English novelist and journalist (pseud. of Thomas Anstey Guthrie)
The Brass Bottle, ch. 1 “Horace Ventimore Receives a Commission” (1900)
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Anstey, F. -- The Brass Bottle, ch. 1 “Horace Ventimore Receives a Commission” [Ventimore] (1900)

Dave — Wed, 22 May 2024 14:38:03 +0000

Candour’s the cement of friendship.

F. Anstey (1856-1934) English novelist and journalist (pseud. of Thomas Anstey Guthrie)
The Brass Bottle, ch. 1 “Horace Ventimore Receives a Commission” [Ventimore] (1900)
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Originally published in The Strand Magazine (1900-02).

Anstey, F. -- The Brass Bottle, ch. 7 (1900)

Dave — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:16:35 +0000

He called to mind all the millionaires he had ever read or heard of; they didn’t seem to get much fun out of their riches. The majority of them were martyrs to dyspepsia. They were often weighed down by the cares and responsibilities of their position; the only people who were unable to obtain an audience of them at any time were their friends; they lived in a glare of publicity, and every post brought them hundreds of begging letters, and a few threats; their children were in constant danger from kidnappers, and they themselves, after knowing no rest in life, could not be certain that even their tombs would be undisturbed. Whether they were extravagant or thrifty, they were equally maligned, and, whatever the fortune they left behind them, they could be absolutely certain that, in a couple of generations, it would be entirely dissipated.

F. Anstey (1856-1934) English novelist and journalist (pseud. of Thomas Anstey Guthrie)
The Brass Bottle, ch. 7 (1900)
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Anstey, F. -- The Brass Bottle, ch. 9 “Persicos Odi, Puer, Apparatus” (1900)

Dave — Wed, 29 May 2024 14:31:16 +0000

These statements were, as he felt even in making them, not only gratuitous, but utterly unconvincing, but he had arrived at that condition in which a man discovers with terror the unsuspected amount of mendacity latent in his system.

F. Anstey (1856-1934) English novelist and journalist (pseud. of Thomas Anstey Guthrie)
The Brass Bottle, ch. 9 “Persicos Odi, Puer, Apparatus” (1900)
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Originally published in The Strand Magazine (1900-04).

Anstey, F. -- Tourmalin’s Time Cheques, ch. 2 “The Second Cheque” (1885)

Dave — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 20:11:24 +0000

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

F. Anstey (1856-1934) English novelist and journalist (pseud. of Thomas Anstey Guthrie)
Tourmalin’s Time Cheques, ch. 2 “The Second Cheque” (1885)
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Anstey, F. -- Tourmalin’s Time Cheques, Prologue (1885)

Dave — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:35:09 +0000

He was not a strong-minded man; but he had one quality which is almost as valuable a safeguard against temptation as strength of mind — namely, timidity.

F. Anstey (1856-1934) English novelist and journalist (pseud. of Thomas Anstey Guthrie)
Tourmalin’s Time Cheques, Prologue (1885)
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