“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
― The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“I suppose everything in existence takes its colour from the average hue of our surroundings.”
― The Island of Doctor Moreau
― The Island of Doctor Moreau
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― The Twits
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― The Twits
“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
“Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.”
― The Sign of the Four
― The Sign of the Four
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