you ever have that feeling when you step down onto a footstep that isn't there?

You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

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

Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.

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.

The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.