Richard H. Davis Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by Richard H. Davis on topics like place, told, mountains

  • Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.

    — Richard H. Davis on deal
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  • As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her.

    We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.

    — Richard H. Davis on beautiful
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  • Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.

    — Richard H. Davis on boards
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  • To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.

    — Richard H. Davis on act
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  • As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week.

    — Richard H. Davis on days
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  • Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags.

    It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill.

    — Richard H. Davis on acts
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  • I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.

    — Richard H. Davis on knew
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  • Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date.

    — Richard H. Davis on date
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  • I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

    — Richard H. Davis on bad
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  • All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.

    — Richard H. Davis on add
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  • The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.

    — Richard H. Davis on assigns
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  • You see, I'd not a very good place here;

    the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.

    — Richard H. Davis on account
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  • About Richard H. Davis

    Name Richard H. Davis
    Quotes 19 quotations
    Birthday October 16
    Top topics place, told, mountains, found, headquarters
  • I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.

    — Richard H. Davis on bare
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  • Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.

    — Richard H. Davis on civilization
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  • It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

    — Richard H. Davis on circumstances
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  • I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.

    — Richard H. Davis on couple
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  • I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.

    — Richard H. Davis on derby
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  • The more I thought of the McClure offer the less I thought of it.

    So I told him last night I was satisfied where I was, and that the $75 he offered me was no inducement.

    — Richard H. Davis on inducement
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  • Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.

    — Richard H. Davis on friday
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