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
Ernest Bramah quotes about
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.
One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
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.