John

“Liz Truss had stood at the despatch box and said, ‘I was at HMP Pentonville last week. They’ve now got patrol dogs who are barking which helps to deter drones.’ This, I was told, provoked an MP to shout ‘You are barking.”
― Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

“Man's life is brief and transitory, Literature endures forever”
― Rory Stewart, The Places in Between

“My fries come with some nuggets in my old age”
― Jon Bellion, Prisoner Sheet Music

“He [Babur] was a type of mastiff, bred to fight against wolves, dogs, and humans. . . . The mastiff is perhaps the oldest breed of dog in the world. . . . The dogs of Ghor . . . were always regarded as particularly special mastiffs. . . . 'so powerful that in frame and strength every one of them is a match for a lion.”
― Rory Stewart, The Places in Between