FastSaying

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome K. Jerome

Related Quotes

Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.
— Jerome K. Jerome
realityshadows
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Sadness
Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God
— Jerome K. Jerome
Nations
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Idleness
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."
— Jerome K. Jerome
Babies