Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it and it darts away.
(Dorothy Parker, 1893 – 1967)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
8th August, 1971
Month: May 2018
Monday’s Piece
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others we convince ourselves.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
11th July, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
False – furtive. When shut of the room, you must not peep through the key-hole. Either break down the door, or go away.
(Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 – 1961)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
10th July, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
(Froude, 1818 – 1894)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
9th July, 1971
Friday’s Piece
O grant me, heaven, a middle state,
Neither too humble nor too great;
More than enough, for nature’s ends,
With something left to treat my friends.
(David Mallet, 1705 – 1765)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
8th July, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
A glass of port in his hand and a fat cigar in his mouth, with a huge and bloody red steak which he puts in his mouth in big chunks, and chew and chatters and smokes until the blood trickles down his chin – and to think this monster comes of a good family.
(Goebbels‘ picture of Winston Churchill on the Front Bench of the House of Commons, 1943)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
7th July, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
Social tact is making your company feel at home, even though you wish they were.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
6th July, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
So Geographers, in Afric-maps
With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps;
And o’er uninhabitable Downs
Place Elephants for want of Towns.
(Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
5th July, 1971
