First Things Quotes

“The teacher I particularly recall with gratitude was Mr Tutton, who taught history and geography. He was good for quizzes if you sat near him at lunch (‘What was the name of Byron’s dog?’; ‘What’s the capital of Mongolia?’), and if your class was lucky enough to have him for the very final period of term, he would always read the hilarious chapter about the village cricket match from A.G. Macdonell’s England, Their England. Pg21”
― Harry Ricketts, First Things

“…but I was really much more like Mrs Munt in Howards End, who ‘collected new ideas as a squirrel collects nuts, and was especially attracted by those that are portable.’ Pg172”
― Harry Ricketts, First Things

“I wrote in my diary: ‘Suddenly to be not Harry but just a foreigner – a Britisher in an alien world – a representative of an exploiting dominant power.’ Reading that comment now is a reminder of the thinness of the Hong Kong University world I almost exclusively inhabited… pg203”
― Harry Ricketts, First Things