Cards (16)

  • She was the right type for it just as i was the wrong type
  • Provincial in speech
  • The inspector need not be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidarity and purposefulness
  • Nobody wants war except some half-civilized folks in the Balkans
  • If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody, we'd had anything to do with it would be very awkward, wouldn’t it?
  • Half shy, half assertive
  • Now I really feel engaged
  • But these girls aren’t cheap labour they’re people
  • Community and all that nonsense
  • as if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive
  • semantic field of infantilization = "girls" "mummy" "I wish you hadn’t told me" "now stop it you two" "run along"
  • There will be peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere- except of course in Russia which will always be behind naturally
  • If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth
  • It’s better to ask for the world than to take it
  • Brighter harder
  • Lower costs higher prices