As a child of eight Mr. Trout had once kissed a girl of six under the mistletoe at a Christmas party, but there his sex life had come to abrupt halt.

Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.

It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.

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

Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?

[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.

She had more curves than a scenic railway