Quotes from Anthony Buckeridge

The only french sentence he could call to mind was a passage which had caused him some trouble in class the previous day. So far as he had been able to judge the translation was: 'the gentleman who wears one green hat approaches himself all of a sudden.

i'm afraid he looks rather startling" Mr Carter said, as though apologising for the spider's appearance, "but he's quite gentle really. He wouldn't hurt a fly. Or rather he would hurt a fly but he wouldn't hurt anything else," he amended.

page forty-four, Fire Down Below," he announced in a voice which suggested that he was trying to broadcast to the nation without using a microphone.