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

I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.

The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.

the ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments

You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.