- Flowers are happy things.
- At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
- Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.
- Work, the what’s-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d’you-call-it.
- He gave the impression that each word was excavated from his interior by some up-to-date process of mining.
- He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.
- Breakfast had been prepared by the kitchen maid, an indifferent performer who had used the scorched earth policy on the bacon again.
- To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi.
- Suddenly there was a sound like G.K. Chesterton falling on a tin roof.
- Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem that we men can never hope to solve.
Flowers are happy things.
