I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie, and his manner suggested that he had got them all.

The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.

She had more curves than a scenic railway

It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.

When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.

[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.

I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called - are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at.