One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.

He looks much more like a lobster than most lobsters do.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

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

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

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

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.