Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.

There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.

It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.

It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled greenly up at the azure sky.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

I never was interested in politics. I'm quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling. Just as I'm about to feel belligerent about some country I meet a decent sort of chap. We go out together and lose any fighting thoughts or feelings.