Ernest Bramah
Ernest Bramah
Ernest Bramah, born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K Jerome and W.W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H.G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book, What Might Have Been, influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Bramah created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth20 March 1868
It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea shops
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
One learns to itch where one can scratch.
The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.
The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.
One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.
There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.
Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.
Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk.
Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.
Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.
Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.