If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.

He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.

If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.

Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.