You can't go through life sitting on the fence. You've got to make decisions, and sometimes you're pretty sure to make them wrong. - Nevil Shute

She did not understand what all that meant, but it was evidently something very near his heart, and so she said, "How splendid!"

Whatever the little man showed him or explained, the designer did nothing but grunt. This was one of his more offensive techniques; he would stand in silence listening to a halting explanation and then grunt, a grunt expressing an ill-tempered scepticism or plain disbelief.

He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars.