Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could be always relied upon to make a break of at least twenty-five even with a bad cue.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.