“Nobody but a highlander can go about without his trousers.”
“All apartments are eligible as I ever heard tell of, just as all shopkeepers, barring that publican next door, are respectable.”
Henry Savile Clarke
“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
“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