Quotes from Eric Knight

Ah, war – machine wars. Bullets took them all. The brave and the cowardly, the weak and the fine strong ones like Dannie. And it wasn't the dying that took bravery, then, for cowards could die. It was the living that took bravery – living in that mud and rain and cold and keeping the spirit strong through it all. That was the bravery.

I don't ever want another dog. Never! I only want Lassie!

But I've got to go to school, Grandfather." "Poppycock," the Duke thundered. "Sending girls to school in foreign lands – teaching them to jabber away in foreign languages like monkeys. Never could understand why they have such things as foreign languages – or if they have 'em, why anybody with any sense should wish to jabber 'em. Look at me. English is good enough for me.

And, as for the younger generation! The Duke could – and often would – lecture for hours on the worthlessness of everyone born in the twentieth century. This last was curious, for, of all his relatives, the only one the Duke could stand (and who could also stand the Duke, it seemed) was the youngest member of his family – his twelve-year-old granddaughter, Priscilla.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.