27 Quotes by Arthur Ransome

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.

Well we shan't be at school for ever," said Nancy. "We'll be grown up, and then we'll live here all the year round."......"I shall be going to sea someday," said John, "and so will Roger. But we'll always come back here on leave.""I shall bring my monkey," said Roger."And the parrot shall always come," said Titty.

P...U...D...D...I...N...G""Pudding," said Roger. "They've kept some for us.""She hasn't finished the word," said Dick.Titty was reading steadily on. "H...E...A...D...S...End of word

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

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.

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

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

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 .

. . 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.