Blandings Castle/Funny

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • "PIG HOOOEY!"
  • A comment about pubs in Something Fresh: "In English country towns, if the public houses do not actually outnumber the inhabitants, they all do an excellent trade. It is only when they are two to one that hard times hit them and set the innkeepers to blaming the government."
  • "It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine."
  • "It was a fine cow, as cows go, but, like so many cows, it lacked sustained dramatic interest ..."