We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.

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.

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!

I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.