Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill. - Brian O'Nolan

Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.

Often in the theatre I can hardly hear myself talking or assuring my doxy that so-and-so is the same fellow that played so-and-so in so-and-so, he's very good, he's a civil servant in the Department of Agriculture, I met a sister of his in Skerries, and so on. Actors should conduct themselves like the rest of us and practise the unobtrusive intonation of the gentleman.

Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.