Lindsey Strachan

“There are some people, if you can only get to learn the length of their feet, you can always fit them with shoes afterwards.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one’s self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby)”
― Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay, The Complete Yes Minister

“Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.”
― Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

“No," said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech—"there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I've been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growing—it's too late now. Marner was in the right in what he said about a man's turning away a blessing from his door: it falls to somebody else.”
― George Eliot, Silas Marner