“...they cursed us - not with a common cursory curse, but with long, carefully-thought-out, comprehensive curses, that embraced the whole of our career, and went away into the distant future, and included all our relations, and covered everything connected with us - good, substantial curses.” HumorThree Men In A Boat Book:Three Men in a Boat Source: Three Men in a Boat
“We, in this age, do not see the beauty of that dog. We are too familiar with it. It is like the sunset and stars: we are not awed by their loveliness because they are common to our eyes. So it is with that china dog.” HumorThree Men In A Boat Book:Three Men in a Boat Source: Three Men in a Boat
“Montmorency's ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. If he can squirm in anywhere where he particularly is not wanted, and be a perfect nuisance, and make people mad, and have things thrown at his head, then he feels his day has not been wasted. To get somebody to stumble over him, and curse him steadily for an hour, is his highest aim and object; and, when he has succeeded in accomplishing this, his conceit becomes quite unbearable.” Jerome K JeromeThree Men In A Boat Author:Jerome K. Jerome
“It’s the silence of the night, those few minutes just before the earth wakes and the night walkers have retired It’s the moist dewy air; a mixture of a dull warmth entangled with a breezy coolness. It’s the humidity that fills the air and —— It’s the flashes of the movie projector as another memory emerges” ProseNow Is The TimeThree Men In A Boat Author:Anonymous-9