She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.