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

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.

I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the outset that if Roderick Spode had a sunnier side, he had not come with any idea of exhibiting it now. His manner was curt. One sensed the absence of the bonhomous note. ... Here he laid a hand on my shoulder, and I can't remember when I have experienced anything more unpleasant. Apart from what Jeeves would have called the symbolism of the action, he had a grip like the bite of a horse. "Did you say 'Oh yes?'" he asked. "Oh no," I assured him.

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

I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.

Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!