The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

A little bit added to what you've already got gives you a little bit more.

Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season

The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.

Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This makes them prone to set themselves up as critics and censors of the frail and erring human beings whose lot they share.