12.2012

I didn't like this one so well. The attitude of everyoneo towards women was frankly horrible.

Quotes

LORD DARLINGTON.　 What cynics you fellows are!

CECIL GRAHAM.　 What is a cynic?　 [Sitting on the back of the sofa.]

LORD DARLINGTON.　 A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

CECIL GRAHAM.　 And a sentimentalist, my ( Read more... )

‘A sentimental journey through France and Italy’ by Laurence Sterne

I have to say titling this France and Italy
seems a bit unfair when there’s about 10% of it that’s set in the
second. Also, what the hell is with it ending in the middle of a
sentence?

15.11.2012

A lot of quotes:

[Quotes]
PREFACE.  IN THE DESOBLIGEANT.

It ( Read more... )

18.09
“Stand up for Autism: a boy, a dog and a prescription for laughter” by Georgina Derbyshire

Laugh out loud funny. Sleep-deprived mum describes her life with idiosyncratic Bobby and the helpful grandparents. Her fights to get Bobby to go to sleep made me feel retroactively guilty, since I know my dad had to tell me five million stories (and ( Read more... )

"The importance of being Ernest" by Oscar Wilde.

Fist Read: 04-2006.
Second read: 2012.

Notes: Funniest thing ever who said Englishmen had no sense of humor? This is the reason people adore Oscar Wilde.

QUOTES>

Algernon. I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing.  It is very romantic to be in love.  But there is nothing romantic ( Read more... )