"Suppertime" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "friends" than I could count on one hand. What are we all if we only realized it? We talk of dignity and propriety, and we are like so many children playing with knucklebones in a giant's scullery. Come along, he will, some suppertime, for us, each in turn—and how many even will so much as look up from their play to wave us good-bye? that's what I mean—the plot of silence we are all in. If only I had my brother's lucidity, how ...
— The Return • Walter de la Mare |
