Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous - almost of pedantic - veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.


Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel (ed. Oxford Paperbacks, 1998) - ISBN: 9780192880338

Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but...

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but...

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but...

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but...