Pull Devil, Pull Baker Quotes

“The most ones of our officers had sweathearts, but I was to yang and to inconstant to bound me with a gerl; prefair to flay from one to a other, as a butterflay who flay from one flower to a other one.”
― Stella Benson, Pull Devil, Pull Baker

“THOSE readers who, ignoring my preliminary advice, have been struggling to apply their brains to this book instead of their mere eyes and ears, have been approaching its problems with a tense instead of a slack mind, and have been worrying about derivations of words, instead of letting the phonetic stream slip into their perceptions along the line of least resistance—will, I am afraid, long ago have wilted from the strain.”
― Stella Benson, Pull Devil, Pull Baker

“Any one, in fact, with blu eys, gold hairs or smole fiets, was likely to be promoted to sweatheart rank and have a hyg romance written about her, whether the Count ever exchanged words with her or not.”
― Stella Benson, Pull Devil, Pull Baker

“He is an honoured guest, privileged to complain of the food and to press succulent beardy kisses on the reluctant chaste hands of lady almoners.”
― Stella Benson, Pull Devil, Pull Baker