Top Ernest Bramah Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Ernest Bramah Biography

Ernest Bramah (20 March 1868 – 27 June 1942), born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book, What Might Have Been, influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Bramah created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados.

Read about Ernest Bramah in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Ernest Bramah Quotes

Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

Fields, Hat, Hats, Orange Trees, Passing, Sandals

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Talking, Feet, Conversation, Subjects, Persons

When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.

Should Have, Doors, Profound, Austere, Beneath

The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.

Ducks, Frogs, Shut, Smell, Smells, Wise

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

Philosophy, Taken, Blessing, Place, Demonstrate, Province

One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.

Back, Dismount, Fatal, May, Ride, Tigers

He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor.

Three, Three Times, Instructors, Failed, Instructor

One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.

Coffins, Ignoring, Live, Price

Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.

Cheap, Eating, House, Lying, Road, Written

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.

Digging, Raising, Reality, Thinking

The one-legged never stumble.

Stumble

Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.

Accompaniment, Cost, Muted, Provider, Sharks, Wine

There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night

Suicide, Dark, Night, Situations, Precipice

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.

Affords, Deep, Flood, Refuge, Wells

There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.

Band, Born, Oddment, Order, Removers, Superfluity

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

Depend, Kaizen, Moment, Reputation, Single Mom, Years

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

Abruptly, Bends In The Road, Road, Steps, Take