So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

She had more curves than a scenic railway

I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.

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!

She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.