Quotes from Richmal Crompton

Having come to the conclusion that there was so much to do that she didn't know where to start, Mrs Fowler decided not to start at all. She went to the library, took Diary of a Nobody from the shelves and, returning to her wicker chair under the lime tree, settled down to waste what precious hours still remained of the day.

William: You'd look better with your hair chopped off. Reggie: You'd look better with your face chopped off.

Butler: Do you think I look deaf? William: Whadda I know. You look like you could be anything.

He's up there talkin',' he muttered scornfully. 'Doesn't he talk?' The tone of contempt was oil on the troubled waters of William's feelings. 'I've just bit him hard,' he said modestly.

With one sweep of his gorry blade three pleecemen's heads roled of into a heep. He shot another through the brane, another fell strangled, an' another, wot had a week hart, fell down dead at the horrible site. Only one was left.

Uncle George was William's godfather, and he was intensely interested in William's upbringing. It was an interest with which William would gladly have dispensed. Uncle George's annual visit was to William a purgatory only to be endured by a resolutely philosophic attitude of mind and the knowledge that sooner or later it must come to an end.

Why can't grown-ups just give me stuff, let me do what I like and then go away A LOT?

The Outlaws loved cellars. … There was a door under the stairs. They opened it. There were steps. Yes, most certainly cellars. Very cautiously the little procession crept down. Glorious cellars, enormous cellars, heavenly vistas of cellars opening out of each other. They explored blissfully for some time for sheer love of exploration.

All gotter be equal,' he pronounced fiercely, 'all gotter have lots of money. All 'uman beings. That's sense, isn't it? Is it sense or isn't it?

He began to dislike her intensely. Fussy ole thing! Believing everything everyone said to her! Interfering