If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they've not forgotten us?

Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.

Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.