To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.

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.

There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.

A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.

Employers are like horses — they require management.

I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.