Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never having played golf, they never knew that strange chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip shot. If Cleopatra had been ousted in the first round of the Ladies' Singles, we should have heard a lot less of her proud imperiousness.

If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.

The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.

She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.

What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.

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!