I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called an oxymoron,' Ramses said. 'Oh--sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.' The poor devil didn't know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.