Hugo?’ ‘Millicent?’ ‘Is that you?’ ‘Yes. Is that you?’ ‘Yes.’ Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.

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

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.

A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.