Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

All fates are ‘worse than death’.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.