What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.

I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing." "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit." "Derisively," I explained.

New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.

-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter

It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.

It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.