I always advise people never to give advice.
The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
Помолете младия си приятел от неустановено кучешко потекло да се оттегли.
Six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said.
She was usually keenly susceptible to weather conditions and reveled in sunshine like a kitten.
[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.
What on earth are you doing in Paris? I asked.Bertie, old man, said Biffy solemnly, I came here to try and forget.Well, you've certainly succeeded.
Until tonight I saw him only through the golden mist of love, and thought him the perfect man. This evening he revealed himself as what he really is – a satyr.
The wretched man seemed fully conscious of his position.
The reactions of a country-house party to an after-dinner dog-fight in the drawing-room always vary considerably according to the individual natures of its members. Lady
Presently, the cow’s audience-appeal began to wane. It was a fine cow, as cows go, but, like so many cows, it lacked sustained dramatic interest.
Nature seems to unbutton its waistcoat and put its feet up.
Liz, said Mr. Cootes, lost in admiration, when it comes to doping out a scheme, you're the snake's eyebrows!
Lady Jane held the English view that visitors like to be left to themselves.
Lady Constance's lips tightened, and a moment passed during which it seemed always a fifty-fifty chance that a handsome silver ink-pot would fly through the air in the direction of her brother's head.
Lady Blunt had come up, flushed and triumphant, having left the solitary porter a demoralized wreck.
It would take more than long-stemmed roses to change my view that you're a despicable cowardy custard and a disgrace to a proud family. Your ancestors fought in the Crusades and were often mentioned i...
In fact, it seemed to him that he could almost hear the wedding bells ringing already. Then, coming out of his dreams, he realized that it was the telephone.
I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.
I say! he said. Are you broke?Nelly laughed.