Цитаты из книги «Трое в лодке, не считая собаки / Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)»

The landlady met us on the doorstep with the greeting that we were the fourteenth company she had turned away within the last hour and a half.

clematis and creeper over the porch

crept under the canvas on to the bank.

Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; and soar over the whirling world beneath you!” After hot muffins, it says, “Be dull and soulless, like a beast of the field[93] – a brainless animal, with listless eye that lacks hope, or fear, or love, or life.” And after brandy it says, “Now, come, fool, grin and tumble.”

One feels so forgiving and generous after a substantial and well-digested meal – so noble-minded, so kindly-hearted.

the less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he is

a glorious morning, late spring or early summer, when the year seems like a fair young maid.

encouraged him. I didn’t encourage him. A dog like that doesn’t want any encouragement. The packing was done at 12.50; and Harris said he hoped nothing would be found broken. George said that if anything was broken it was broken. He also said he was ready for bed. We were all ready for bed. We went upstairs.

“We must not think of the things that we can’t do without

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs.