The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!

Greenfly, it's difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee.

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.