Oh! I must take my shoes off. Huh! Hell hath no fury like a woman’s corns, has it? - Shelagh Delaney

He didn't play with his food anymore till it got cold; instead, down it went like fuel into a furnace keeping the ovens hot, and the energy at boiling point, as Tom hurtled through his life catching up with himself at last.

We teach you the pleasure of physical exercise—the team-spirit of games, too, for when you leave school finally you will find that life is a game, sometimes serious, sometimes fun, but a game that must be played with true team-spirit—there is no room for the outsider in life.

I can’t stand people who laugh at other people. They’d get a bigger laugh if they laughed at themselves.