E.F. Benson QUOTES

81 " Every now and then the horses seemed to throw up their heads and sniffed the air suspiciously. On such occasions I often looked round in alarm. The road was pretty bleak, for we were traversing a sort of high, wind-swept plateau. As we drove, I saw a road that looked but little used, and which seemed to dip through a little, winding valley. It looked so inviting that, even at the risk of offending him, I called Johann to stop — and when he had pulled up, I told him I would like to drive down that road. He made all sorts of excuses, and frequently crossed himself as he spoke. "

― E.F. Benson , The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 6 (30 short stories)

82 " I tried to argue with him, but it was difficult to argue with a man when I did not know his language. The advantage certainly rested with him, for although he began to speak in English, of a very crude and broken kind, he always got excited and broke into his native tongue — and every time he did so, he looked at his watch. "

― E.F. Benson , The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 6 (30 short stories)

83 " Yo siempre estuve en contra de considerar a toda esa gente de piel oscura un mismo grupo y llamarlos negros, Cuando estábamos en Madrás, yo era famosa por lo bien que discriminaba. "

― E.F. Benson

84 " I must confess that the oddness of these three old pensioners in whose charge her ladyship had left the castle, and the deep-toned, old-fashioned furniture of the housekeeper’s room in which they foregathered, affected me in spite of my efforts to keep myself at a matter-of-fact phase. They seemed to belong to another age, an older age, an age when things spiritual were different from this of ours, less certain; an age when omens and witches were credible, and ghosts beyond denying. Their very existence was spectral; the cut of their clothing, fashions born in dead brains. The ornaments and conveniences of the room about them were ghostly — the thoughts of vanished men, which still haunted rather than participated in the world of today. "

― E.F. Benson , The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 6 (30 short stories)

85 " She tried him in French and found he could speak it very decently, and told him that she had a book which she had just finished, which she would lend him. It was by that exquisite stylist Huysman and was called Là-Bas. She "

― E.F. Benson , The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

86 " I don't see how the baby is the result of gambling," said Georgie. "Unless he bet he wouldn't have one. "

― E.F. Benson , Make Way for Lucia

87 " Poets of all ages and of all denominations are unanimous in assuring us that there was once a period on this grey earth known as the Golden Age. These irresponsible hards describe it in terms of the vaguest, most poetic splendour, and, apart from the fact, upon which they are all agreed, that the weather was always perfectly charming, we have to reconstruct its characteristics in the main for ourselves. "

― E.F. Benson , Dodo: An Omnibus

88 " And all the time, if she had only known it, the stars were fighting not against her but for her. "

― E.F. Benson

89 " Conversation was a thing that made time pass, not a way of passing the time. "

― E.F. Benson , Dodo: An Omnibus

90 " I saw his face, too; it was the face of the driver of the hearse, with a mole on the left cheek. Then he spoke to me, jerking his thumb over his shoulder. "'Just room for one inside, sir,' he said. "

― E.F. Benson , Ghost Stories: Selected and Introduced by Mark Gatiss

91 " We are most of us so accustomed to see people behave, and to behave ourselves, in a manner not quite natural, that to see anyone who never does so, is in itself calculated to make one rather nervous. "

― E.F. Benson , Dodo: An Omnibus

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