Harold Abrahams Quotes & Sayings

Men are far more likely to clean things with spit than women are. — Marc Schmatjen

Not interested. I didn't try very hard. I went to boarding school on a sports' scholarship after I bowled a cricket ball into my old headmaster's leg. He said, 'Christ, that was accurate,' and got it for me. But I walked out at 16. — Tony Blackburn

You will know who the enemy is intimidated by because they're the ones he targets and keeps beating down. — Donna Lynn Hope

People think they have the right to judge everything that I do. — Heather Armstrong

She preferred those occupations that require no companion. She walked alone, rad alone, sat alone in the sittingroom or in the ray of faint sunshine which sometimes penetrated the little courtyard ab about one o'clock. She was less open-hearted and confiding than before; it was as if someone
not necessarily Jonathan Strange
had disappointed her and she was determined to be more independent in future. pg. 675 — Susanna Clarke

It might have driven me mad; but I was always a pretty stubborn one, so I just held on and bided my time. — Arthur Conan Doyle

As to the new pope, scarcely had he completed the formalities of etiquette which his exaltation imposed upon him, and paid to each man the price of his simony, when from the height of the Vatican he cast his eyes upon Europe, a vast political game of chess, which he cherished the hope of directing at the will of his own genius. — Alexandre Dumas