His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush. - Raymond Chandler

'He used to wear a little blond moustache but Mother made him cut it off. She said -'\n'Don't tell me. The minister needed it to stuff a cushion>'

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.