20 Quotes by Stephen Potter

Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. “Listen,” he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond. “That’s an easy one to tell. The frog-pippit.” Then he would add, As a safety measure, “As I believe they call it in these parts.”

Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn’t you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better.