You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on the fragments in hobnailed boots, but you are mistaken. It would be a genuine pleasure. By an odd coincidence I brought a pair of hobnailed boots with me!' So saying, and recognising a good exit line when he saw one, he strode out, and after an interval of tense meditation I followed him. (Spode to Wooster)

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.

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.

Flowers are happy things.

In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.

Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.