When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.

The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.