‎'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.

Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.

Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized or mental.' 'Indeed, they're not mental,' said Mother indignantly. 'Nonsense, Mother... Look at Aunt Bertha, keeping flocks of imaginary cats... and there's Great-Uncle Patrick, who wanders about nude and tells complete strangers how he killed whales with a penknife...They're all bats.

Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.