aunt quotes

Matilda told such Dreadful Lies, It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes; Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth, Had kept a Strict Regard forTruth, Attempted to Believe Matilda: The effort very nearly killed her.

- (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre Belloc
  Cautionary  Tales,'Matilda'.

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.'

- Harry Graham
  Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes,'Equanimity'.

'Take my camel, dear,'said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.

- Dame (Emilie) Rose Macaulay
  The Towers of  Trebizond, ch.1.

But Ireckon Igot to light out for theterritoryahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  Huck.TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, closing words.

As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows.On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across the primeval swamps†the clan has a tendency to ignore me. It's one of the advantages Iget from being a bachelorand, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.

-Plum
  The InimitableJeeves, ch.16.