This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth.

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.

My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.

Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.