All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.

If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.