"‘Me and the wife always eat 'em (fish and chips) off the paper - seems to taste better somehow.’ ‘T…"

"‘It seems you like your coffee half and half, sarge ... half in the cup and half in the saucer.’"

"He passed the blonde just as she turned her head, and he blinked hard. What a world we live in! for the lovely blonde…"

"He hated suicides. ... Was suicide just the coward's refuge from some black despair? Or was it in its way an act of c…"

"‘He's promised to see a psychiatrist — but I'm not very optimistic about that. I only ever knew one psych…"

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."

"Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside."

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."

"In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include …"

"There is no thermometer for wants!"