They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.

Providence seems to look after the chumps of this world; and, personally, I'm all for it.

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.