He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'Indeed, sir?

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

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.

When you're alone you don't do much laughing.

It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all violin solos of seeming to last much longer than it actually did.