Seven Days in New Crete Quotes

“We are entrusted, you must know, with the revision of the English Dictionary. On the evidence of the Liverpool find of Christmas cards, in which occurred such couplets as:

Just to hope the day keeps fine
For you and your this Christmas time,

and:

I hope this stocking's in your line
When stars shine bright at Christmas-time

I hold that "Christmas-time" was often pronounced "Christmas-tine", and that this is a dialect variant of the older "Christmas-tide". Quant denies this, with a warmth that is unusual in him.'
'Quant is right.”
― Robert Graves, Seven Days in New Crete

“Conversations between persons who do not like one another's selves are always sterile.”
― Robert Graves, Seven Days in New Crete