“All those 'bloodys' was a veritable cornucopia of emotion for Barrons.”
“I was stunned to see that he looked stunned himself, which was an exorbitant display of emotion for Barrons.”
“I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.”
“Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.”
“Shut up in public those bloody private wounds.”
“Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929”