Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.
It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.