Bairnsfather Quotes & Sayings

She grinned at me. 'You got types?'
'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws. — Dashiell Hammett

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it. — Ellen Terry

I don't know that it is possible to construct anything more atrociously hideous or uninteresting than a Base Camp. It consists, in military parlance, of nothing more than: -
Fields, grassless 1
Tents, bell 500 — Bruce Bairnsfather

...I found that much of the romance had left the trenches. The old days, from the beginning to July, 1915, were all so delightfully precarious and primitive. Amateurish trenches and rough and ready life, which to my mind gave this war what it sadly needs - a touch of romance. — Bruce Bairnsfather

To give a recipe for getting a rough idea, in case you want to, I recommend the following procedure. Select a flat ten-acre ploughed field, so sited that all the surface water of the surrounding country drains into it. Now cut a zig-zag slot about four feet deep and three feet wide diagonally across, dam off as much water as you can so as to leave about a hundred yards of squelchy mud; delve out a hole at one side of the slot, then endeavour to live there for a month on bully beef and damp biscuits, whilst a friend has instructions to fire at you with his Winchester every time you put your head above the surface. — Bruce Bairnsfather

Besides, if you can spot a
house that contains, say, half a dozen to a dozen people, and just plop a "Johnson" right amidships, it generally means "exit house and people," which, I suppose, is a desirable object to be attained, according to twentieth century manners. — Bruce Bairnsfather

It's a special thing to be a public company. — David Duffield

When CNN does a story and then says, 'Tweet us what you think' - why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It's enough for me to just sit and listen and learn. — Jason Alexander

That Astronomical Annoyance, the Star Shell, Which Momentarily Enables You to Scrutinize the Kind of Mud You Are In. — Bruce Bairnsfather

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another. — Benjamin Jowett

Whenever I don't state the climatic conditions, read "raining. — Bruce Bairnsfather

It has always struck me as an amusing thing that the world, and all the human beings thereon, do get themselves into such curious and painful predicaments, and then spend the rest of the time wishing they could get out. — Bruce Bairnsfather

There is no sinner like a young saint. — Aphra Behn