Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 24, 1890 Death: November 11, 1971
Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much..
aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; b….
The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward ….
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff….
Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking….
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso..
Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there..
The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care..
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth..
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament..
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be w….
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain..
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected..
This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade..
My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on,….
For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin..
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'..
As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me..
There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor ref….
A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by….
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that ….