A few favorite bits from last week

[cimorene]

How curious that if you dreamed about boiled rabbit, it meant that sometime in early childhood you had been kissed by a poacher in a railway-carriage, and had forgotten all about it!

- EF Benson, Lucia in London, on psychoanalysis

And after she told him this, she led him to sit upon a bed covered with such a costly quilt that the Duke of Austria didn’t have its equal.

- Chrétien de Troyes, The Knight with the Lion

"A man who cannot learn his lesson should be bound before the choir screen in church like a lunatic."

- Chrétien de Troyes, The Knight with the Lion, giving rise to so many questions and no answers, not even a footnote

"The dungheap will always smell, wasps will always sting and hornets buzz, and a cad will always slander and vex others."

- Chrétien de Troyes, The Knight with the Lion, on Sir Kay, who was just as much of a jerk in Chrétien as in The Sword in the Stone

Luckily she expected nothing better of either of them, so their conduct was in no way a blow or a disappointment to her.

- EF Benson, Miss Mapp