Henry Reed Quotes

In a civil war, a general must know-and I’m afraid it’s a thing rather of instinct than of practice-he must know exactly when to move over to the other side.

And the sooner the tea’s out of the way, the sooner we can get out the gin, eh?

Modest? My word, no… He was an all-the-lights-on man.

It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.

As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.

We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring.