St. Ives Quotes

“It is always a bad sign when the lower classes laugh: their taste in humour is both poor and sinister;”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England

“His interest never flagged.  He would hear the same word twenty times with profound refreshment, mispronounce it in several different ways, and forget it again with magical celerity. ”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England