R.D. Blackmore Quotes

#1. May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.

R.D. Blackmore

#2. Because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?

R.D. Blackmore

#3. It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.

R.D. Blackmore

#4. Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth ...

R.D. Blackmore

#5. Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.

R.D. Blackmore

#6. 'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'

R.D. Blackmore

#7. Now let us bandy words no more ... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.

R.D. Blackmore

#8. Either love me not at all, or as I love you, for ever.

R.D. Blackmore

#9. Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning ...

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#10. I wandered in the streets, what with the noise the people made, the number of the coaches, the running of the footmen, the swaggering of great courtiers, and the thrusting aside of everybody, many a time I longed to be back among the sheep again, for fear of losing my peacefulness of spirit.

R.D. Blackmore

#11. But whatever lives or dies, business must be attended to; and the principal business of good Christians is, beyond all controversy, to fight with one another.

R.D. Blackmore