49 quotes found
“Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.”
“God never did make a more calm quiet innocent recreation than angling.”
“Angling is an innocent cruelty.”
“You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.”
“He looked steadily in my eyes, and held my hand affectionally. “Narissa, let me take you away to a world that you have never known to exist.”
“This was all horribly wrong. This was red wine with fish. This was a man wearing a dinner jacket and brown shoes. This was as wrong as things get.”
“She is neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring.”
“Master I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.”
