Anthony C. Winkler > Quotes

“Aloysius, you mad or sane today?”
― Anthony C. Winkler, The Lunatic

“Next time you pull a knife on me," Inga growled, "this is vhat I do to you."

She hammered a scruffy bush with the violent and athletic kick of a Chinaman in a kung fu movie.

"Extreme Unction!" the bush howled. "Call de priest! Me need Extreme Unction!"

"Inga!" Aloysius cried. "De bush no trouble you! Him is a Catholic bush!”
― Anthony C. Winkler, The Lunatic

“Yes, sah!" Service cried indignantly. "She hold me down, sah!" She know kung fu and chop suey and marital arts, sah!"

"Marital arts? Chop suey?" the judge scoffed. "What you talking 'bout, man? One is when a man marry and de odder is Chinese food.”
― Anthony C. Winkler, The Lunatic

“God said that I must be mistaken”
― Anthony C. Winkler, The Duppy

“A preaching bush woke up Aloysius. It was a bush that claimed to have taken a correspondence course from an American seminary, that sat in a dirty gully and did nothing but rant and rave all day except during the fiercest heat of the sun when it had to content itself with muttering like an old man. Once or twice before, this same bush had awoken Aloysius from a sound sleep with its preaching until he had threatened to chop it up with his machete the next time. Now the bush was waxing full force as though it were in a church being listened to attentively by fifty toothless old women.”
― Anthony C. Winkler, The Lunatic

“God said that a shouldist was one who insists on remaking the world as he thinks it should be”
― Anthony C. Winkler, The Duppy

“Milud and Milady”
― Anthony C. Winkler, The Lunatic

“So dey’d lynch me”
― Anthony C. Winkler, The Duppy

“Nothing galled this teacher more than to reflect on the wicked unfairness of vocabulary. Why should a white Englishman be able to say about a dog that it was “docile” while the children of a poor black Jamaican could only mutter that it was “tame”? If he chose to be boastful about it, the Englishman could even add about the dog that it was “compliant, pliable, tractable, submissive, amenable,” and “yielding.” “Tame, tame, and more tame” was all the poor tormented black children could reply. What was fair about that? What was just about a white man having twenty names for a tame dog while a poor black child had only one?”
― Anthony C. Winkler, The Lunatic

“You would do dis for me”
― Anthony C. Winkler, The Duppy

“Crowning?” I sputtered from the floor”
― Anthony C. Winkler, The Duppy