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Top 25 Ernest Bramah Quotes (2025 Update)

Ernest Bramah Quote: “A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.”

1. “A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night.”

2. “There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.”

3. “He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “One learns to itch where one can scratch.”

4. “One learns to itch where one can scratch.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor.”

5. “He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “The one-legged never stumble.”

6. “The one-legged never stumble.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.”

7. “The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.”

8. “However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.”

9. “Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “Even a mole may instruct a philosopher in the art of digging.”

10. “Even a mole may instruct a philosopher in the art of digging.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.”

11. “Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.”

12. “Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.”

13. “When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “One may ride upon a tiger’s back but it is fatal to dismount.”

14. “One may ride upon a tiger’s back but it is fatal to dismount.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.”

15. “Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.”

16. “Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “There is a time to silence an adversary with the honey of logical persuasion, and there is a time to silence him with the argument of a heavily directed club.”

17. “There is a time to silence an adversary with the honey of logical persuasion, and there is a time to silence him with the argument of a heavily directed club.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.”

18. “The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.”

19. “Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one’s time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.”

20. “It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one’s time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark’s fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.”

21. “Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark’s fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk.”

22. “Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?”

23. “How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.”

24. “One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.”

— Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah Quote: “There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.”

25. “There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.”

— Ernest Bramah

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