At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.

I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys.

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into a lot of trouble, and neither of them had brains enough to get out of the trouble. I thought: Well, how can I get them out? And I thought: Suppose one of them had an omniscient valet?

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.