She's one of those soppy girls, riddled from head to foot with whimsy. She holds the view that the stars are God's daisy chain, that rabbits are gnomes in attendance on the Fairy Queen, and that every time a fairy blows its wee nose a baby is born, which, as we know, is not the case. She's a drooper.

It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.

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

Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

She had more curves than a scenic railway

A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.

Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.