R.D. Blackmore Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
June 7, 1825 – January, 20, 1900.

Richard Doddridge Blackmore (7 June 1825 – 20 January 1900), known as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. He won acclaim for vivid descriptions and personification of the countryside, sharing with Thomas Hardy a Western England background and a strong sense of regional setting in his works.

Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning . . .

R.D. Blackmore
- Time
- Good
- Morning
Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.

R.D. Blackmore
- Time
- Breakfast

'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'

R.D. Blackmore