Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.

Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.

What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more.

It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.

Oh dear,' said Eddie. 'We'd better hurry. Tinto, call me a cab.' All right,' said Tinto. 'You're a cab.

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I’ve just put a dice in my tea.