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Lying back and relaxing for so many days, I decided I will atleast put up some quotes...


New York's a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

``But you said they were like a couple of love-birds.''
``Quite. But even with love-birds circumstances can arise which will cause the female love-bird to get above herself and start throwing her weight about.''


He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

`Do you know,' said a thoughtful Bean, `I'll bet that if all the girls Freddie Widgeon has loved and lost were placed end to end - not that I suppose one could do it - they would reach halfway down Piccadilly.'
`Further than that,' said the Egg. `Some of them were pretty tall.'

When two strong men stand face to face, each claiming to be Major Brabazon-Plank, it is inevitable that there will be a sense of strain, resulting in a momentary silence.

The more I see of women, the more I think there ought to be a law. Something has got to be done about this sex, or the whole fabric of Society will collapse, and then what silly asses we shall all look.

Behind every poor, innocent, harmless blighter who is going down for the third time in the soup, you will find, if you look carefully enough, the aunt who shoved him into it.
My Aunt Dahlia has a carrying voice... If all other sources of income failed, she could make a good living calling the cattle home across the Sands of Dee.
He tottered blindly towards the bar like a camel making for an oasis after a hard day at the office.
If he had a mind, there was something on it.

If you were a millionaire, would you rather be stabbed in the back with a paperknife or found dead without a mark on you, staring with blank eyes at some appalling sight?
Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump.
Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man?
They only unsettle him.
Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.

I shot out of my chair as if somebody had shoved a bradawl through the seat.


...its proprietor leaped in his chair with a wordless cry like that of a sleeping cat on whose tail some careless number-eleven shoe has descended.

The steward was a man in the middle forties, and time had robbed him of practically all his hair, giving him in niggardly exchange a pink pimple on the side of his nose.

The rule by which he had always lived was that the best would have to do until something better came along.