“All apartments are eligible as I ever heard tell of, just as all shopkeepers, barring that publican next door, are respectable.”
“I haven't seen this chap's boots yet, but I should say from his knock he's a good opinion of himself.”
Henry Savile Clarke
“Be speedy, for I was born under a thirsty star.”
Henry Savile Clarke
“Whenever I had spotted a real good thing, my funds would never run to paper and stamps to apply for shares.”
Henry Savile Clarke
“Nobody but a highlander can go about without his trousers.”
Henry Savile Clarke
“You see around you the old masters. They were called masters, as you are doubtless aware, because they taught drawing; the epithet old was applied on account of the general leeriness of their disposit...”
Henry Savile Clarke