Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.

Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned.

Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem we men can never hope to solve.

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.