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“Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest crocodile in the world is Microsoft, and everybody is busy sucking up to it.”

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John Naughton

John Naughton is a British journalist born on July 18, 1946. His career spans various fields, including technology, politics, and media. more

“Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives having any regard for their husbands who would let any man's spoken word stand between them and that husband's dead body. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.”

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels

“I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.”

Thinking Want Years Wells Littles Helping Three Mystery Humorous Murder Sarcasm Usual

Book:The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.”

Wells Humorous Sarcasm

Book:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Dover Reader

Source: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Dover Reader

“Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.”

Knows Wells I Can Eye Serious Humorous Hundred Claims Nine Naked Sarcasm Microscopes Naked Eyes

Book:The Lost World: Professor Challenger #1

Source: The Lost World: Professor Challenger #1

“Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?”

Knows Firsts Littles Facts Three Known Principles Bird Humorous Wings Fingers Educated Atmosphere Sarcasm Bats Anatomy Membranes Zoology

Book:The Lost World and Other Stories

Source: The Lost World and Other Stories

“We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.”

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels

“The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.”

Literature Ultimate Innocence Gullibility

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.”

May Mean Reason Action Remember Depends Solutions Humorous Extraordinary Noses Motive Sarcasm Volume Powder Inscrutable Quicksand

Book:The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Return of Sherlock Holmes

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