Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.

She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

I was in rare fettle and the heart had touched a new high. I don't know anything that braces one up like finding you haven't got to get married after all.

[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.