67 Quotes by Norman Douglas

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

Mr. Frederick Parker spent a good deal of his time in endeavouring to mask, under a cloak of boisterous good humour, a really remarkable combination of malevolence and imbecility.

Why always "not yet"?  Do flowers in spring say "not yet"? 

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Mr. Keith, by means of some mysterious formula, soon procured two seats in the front row, the occupants of which smilingly took their places among the crowd at the back.

The older I get,” observed Mr. van Koppen, “the more I realize that everything depends upon what a man postulates. The rest is plain sailing.

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.