Quotes about Ingenuity

Experience has taught me, said Peter (...) that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he should have procured The Times this morning by the simple expedient of asking the milkman to request the postmistress to telephone to Broxford and have it handed to the 'bus-conductor to be dropped at the post-office and brought up by the little girl who delivers the telegrams is a trifling example of his resourceful energy.

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!