After all, golf is only a game,'' said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they're saying.
A fellow told me one about Wembley yesterday, I said, to help on the cheery flow of conversation. Stop me if you've heard it before. Chap goes up to deaf chap outside the exhibition and says, Is this...
You don't need a hat to tax a man with stealing a pig,' said the Hon. Galahad, who was well versed in the manners and rules of good society.
Which one, darling?''The one with a face like a fish.''But they all have faces like fish, darling.'
The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear...
London was too big to be angry with. It took no notice of him. It did not care whether he was glad to be there or sorry, and there was no means of making it care. That is the peculiarity of London. Th...
Jeeves, Mr Little is in love with that female.So I gathered, sir. She was slapping him in the passage.I clutched my brow.Slapping him?Yes, sir. Roguishly.
Besides, a burglar is only a practical socialist. Philosophers talk a lot about the redistribution of wealth. The burglar goes out and does it.
As an energetic Socialist, I do my best to see the good that is in him, but it's hard. Comrade Bristow's the most striking argument against the equality of man I've ever come across.
After all, what could be pleasanter than a little literature in the small hours?
A pictorial record of his hopes and despairs would have looked like a fever chart.
A man who forgets what day he was married, when he's been married one year, will forget, at about the end of the fourth, that he's married at all.
You start the day with the fairest prospects, and before nightfall everything is as rocky and ding-basted as stig tossed full of doodlegammon.
The ideal girl . . . would be kind. That was because she would also be extremely intelligent, and, being extremely intelligent, would have need of kindness to enable her to bear with a not very intell...
The High Street was full of farmers, cows, and other animals, the majority of the former well on the road to intoxication. It is, of course, extremely painful to see a man in such a condition, but whe...
That's good, I said. And if you have a nice time this morning on the sands with your spade and bucket, you will come and tell me all about it, won't you? I have so little on my mind just now that it's...
She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage society or a league for the suppression of eggs.
Reflect, old man! We have been pals for years. Your mother likes me.No, she doesn't.Well, anyway, we were at school together and you owe me a tenner.Oh, well, he said in a resigned sort of voice.
Once more he became silent, staring before him with sombre eyes. Following his gaze, I saw that he was looking at an enlarged photograph of my Uncle Tom in some sort of Masonic uniform which stood on...
On the cue 'five aunts' I had given at the knees a trifle, for the thought of being confronted with such a solid gaggle of aunts, even if those of another, was an unnerving one. Reminding myself that...