H.M. Frigate Quotes

“Probably I even remembered, subconsciously, having “Limey bastard!” shouted at me on a street-car … Yes, a certain bias might have crept in. But to an outside observer the fact did remain that, though a big effort was being made, it was not universal; it was being side-tracked all the time by foolish or trivial or catchpenny ideas and people: by people who thought it was funny to grab more than their share of what was going: by the man who was too smart to work one-hundred-percent, and the woman who was”
― Nicholas Monsarrat, H.M. Frigate

“It wasn’t that they were all pretty, but they were all attractive; they’d obviously taken endless trouble over their appearance, playing up any good feature and being clever about the remainder, and it was really delightful to walk down a street past this moving frieze of faces and figures, each of which seemed to have its own cunning distinction. They”
― Nicholas Monsarrat, H.M. Frigate