Ernest Bramah

"At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude – a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently …"

"He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor."

"When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this e…"

"Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree."

"However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood."

"There are few situations in life that cannot be honourably settled, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice upon …"

"One learns to itch where one can scratch."

"Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to who…"