Scoop

“I'm drunk but truthful.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“There is something spiteful and yet open-hearted about you”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The French are completely without scruples, energy or valor - the Great War castrated them and left them diminished, whiney, mistaking bickering for debate and shrillness for eloquence, they are a nation in such effete decline that Shickelgrubber, when he finally attacks them, might be dancing with the keys to Paris in his hand after a week or two of puny skirmishing.”
― Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, The Memoirs of Marshal Mannerheim

“yo ho ho and a bottle of rum”
― Robert Lewis Stevenson, Treasure Island