Memorable Quotes from Russell Wade
4 quotesDissection as a Metaphor for Dislike
Cabman John Gray
I'm a pretty bad fellow myself, but MacFarlane's the boy - Toddy McFarlane I call him. Toddy, order your friend another glass. Toddy hates me.
[to Fettes]
Dr. Wolfe Toddy MacFarlane
Don't call me by that confounded name.
Cabman John Gray
Hear him! Did you ever see the lads play knife? Toddy would like to do that all over my body.
[thrusts a knife into a loaf of bread]
Donald Fettes
We medicals have a better way than that. When we dislike a friend of ours, we dissect him.
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A Friendly Gesture Amidst Tension
Donald Fettes
Here. Here's a bit of something for you. Now, now, laddie. I only wanted to be friendly.
[Donald sits on a tomb in a graveyard and offers a bit of his lunch to a dog sitting on a nearby grave; the dog growls angrily]
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The Intersection of Science and Art in Medicine
Donald Fettes
He taught me the mathematics of anatomy but he couldn't teach me the poetry of medicine.
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A Mother's Grief and a Dog's Loyalty
Mrs. Mary McBride
He'll not leave the grave - not since Wednesday last when we buried the lad.
Donald Fettes
Your son, ma'am? He must have been a fine boy for the wee dog to love him so.
Mrs. Mary McBride
A great kind lad he was - gentle with all things like Robbie. Now I can't get the dog to leave here. Perhaps it is for the best. I've not money enough to afford a grave watcher.
Donald Fettes
Not much danger here, ma'am, I wouldn't think - right here in the heart of Edinburgh.
Mrs. Mary McBride
They're uncommon bold, the grave robbers - and the daft doctors who drive them on.
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