I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing." "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit." "Derisively," I explained.

It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.

Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound.

His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.

An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.