Rustication Quotes

“I said: I don’t ever find people uninteresting. On the contrary, I find them so fascinating and so highly-flavoured that after small helpings, I have to go away and chew them slowly and analyse the taste of them.”
― Charles Palliser, Rustication

“Such people are their own punishment.”
― Charles Palliser, Rustication

“If his nose were a tail he would be the perfect image of a sow’s rear end.”
― Charles Palliser, Rustication

“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman and an irritable young one. And with only the books I had brought with me, most of which were still in my trunk anyway.”
― Charles Palliser, Rustication