Quotes About Ransome

#1. Malachi Smith. Crispin Jones. Suzette Boudrot. Claude Le Breton." Matthew paused as Ransome searched the ledger's entries for the names. "You should have kept them in chronological order instead of alphabetical. That's how I remember them." Ransome

Deborah Harkness

#2. William Ransome and Cora Seaborne, stripped of code and convention, even of speech, stood with her strong hand in his: children of the earth lost in wonder.

Sarah Perry

#3. My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable. The Arthur Ransome books gave me an alternative childhood and the tools to escape.

Michelle Magorian

#4. they would soon be old enough to read The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit and Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, and eventually Iris Murdoch and Alan Bennett. They could all be readers, and maybe even uncommon ones.

Will Schwalbe

#5. There's something nice about out-and-out children's books with no sex and a happy ending - Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.

Jo Walton

#6. Are ye all right, man? Ian asked, in the same tone of mild concern he'd heard his da use now and then on his mam or Uncle Jamie. Evidently it was in fact the right tone to take with a Fraser about to go berserk, for William breathed like a grampus for a moment or two, then got himself under control.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. Perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

Arthur Ransome

#8. I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.

Arthur Ransome

#9. Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been

Arthur Ransome

#10. Only, the beastly Arctic won't freeze,

Arthur Ransome

#11. You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

Arthur Ransome

#12. Who would wave a flag to be rescued if they had a desert island of their own? That was the thing that spoilt Robinson Crusoe. In the end he came home. There never ought to be an end.

Arthur Ransome

#13. No one wants to row who has ever sailed.

Arthur Ransome

#14. The island had come to seem one of those places seen from the train that belong to a life in which we shall never take part.

Arthur Ransome

#15. They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.

Arthur Ransome

#16. The siren heralds a friend, the bee a stranger.

Hilda M. Ransome

#17. Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

Arthur Ransome

#18. What's hit's history: what's missed's mystery.

Arthur Ransome

#19. A pigeon a day keeps the natives away.

Arthur Ransome

#20. BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN

Arthur Ransome

#21. Thought of blowing your brains out?"
William blinked, startled.
"No."
"That's good. Anything else is bound to be an improvement, isn't it?

Diana Gabaldon

#22. Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

Arthur Ransome

#23. He wiped the sweat from his face on his sleeve, squared his shoulders, and strode back into the fray. All there was to do was his duty.

Diana Gabaldon

#24. But the big hills up at the lake helped to make him feel that the houseboat man did not matter. The hills had been there before Captain Flint. They would be there for ever. That, somehow was comforting.

Arthur Ransome

#25. There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.

Arthur Ransome

#26. Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry.. We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.

Arthur Ransome

#27. When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

Arthur Ransome

#28. For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .

Arthur Ransome

#29. ...(he) had his own set of rules: "ride clean and ride fair." Asked by reporters how he managed to keep calm despite the attacks by other cyclists, Marshall answered, "I simply ride away.

Lesa Cline-Ransome

#30. Things might have been a lot worse. Don't you worry about it overmuch. When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time. Worrying never made a sailor.

Arthur Ransome

#31. Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

Arthur Ransome

#32. Droughts especially appear to have accompanied the spirits of the dead in bee-form, and for this reason the honey offering was almost always customary in rain-magic, and the power of predicting rain was attributed to the bee.

Hilda M. Ransome

#33. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage.
The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

Arthur Ransome

#34. Next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Arthur Ransome