Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.

I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my mind, was of a nature calculated to excite the liveliest of suspicions. Well, I mean to say, when a girl suddenly asks you out of a blue sky if you don't sometimes feel that the stars are God's daisy-chain, you begin to think a bit.

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

It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.

Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.

There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.