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
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