"Which reminds me of the man I read of in some sacred book who was given a choice of what he most desired. And because…"

"We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart."

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."

"Put that bloody cigarette out!"

"Reginald in his wildest lapses into veracity never admits to being more than twenty-two."

"I found everyone talking nervously and feverishly of the weather and the war in South Africa, except Reginald, who wa…"

"It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female rel…"

"I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-…"

"To die before being painted by Sargent is to go to Heaven prematurely."

"And the sleeper, eye unlidding, Heard a voice for ever bidding Much farewell to Dolly Gray; Turning weary on his truc…"