What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?

A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.

I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably wouldn't have said anything, just made one of those strange Scottish noises at the back of his throat like someone gargling.

When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'

A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?