He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.

It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.

Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It is one of the chief merits of golf that non-success at the game induces a certain amount of decent humilty, which keeps a man from pluming himself too much on any petty triumphs he may achieve in other walks of life.

Hugo?’ ‘Millicent?’ ‘Is that you?’ ‘Yes. Is that you?’ ‘Yes.’ Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.