the supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'

While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled. He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!

In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.