Emily

“Ye've a furtive look in your eye - a furtive, sneakin', poachin' look in your eye, that 'ud ruin the reputation of an archangel!”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Complete Stalky and Co.

“(Words) deserve respect. Get the right ones in the right order, and you can nudge the world a little.”
― Tom Stoppard

“And if you expect you'll gain anything from us by your way of approachin' us, you're jolly well mistaken. That's all. Good-night.'
They clattered upstairs, injured virtue on every inch of their backs.
'But - but what the dickens have we done?' said Harrison, amazedly, to Craye.
'I don't know. Only - it always happens that way when one has anything to do with them. They're so beastly plausible.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Complete Stalky and Co.

“Stalky,' in their school vocabulary, meant clever, well-considered and wily, as applied to plans of action; and 'stalkiness' was the one virtue Corkran toiled after.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Complete Stalky and Co.