Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love. - P. G. Wodehouse

‘Suppose your Aunt Dahlia read in the paper one morning that you were going to be shot at sunrise.’ ‘I couldn’t be, I’m never up so early.’

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.