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.

It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is.

...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation.

The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.

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

I never was interested in politics. I'm quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling. Just as I'm about to feel belligerent about some country I meet a decent sort of chap. We go out together and lose any fighting thoughts or feelings.

I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.