Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 24, 1890 Death: November 11, 1971
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose..
Justice should be cheap but judges expensive..
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time..
Greenfly, it's difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee..
Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it..
The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than othe….
Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-nig….
The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch..
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….
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth..
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected..
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..
This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade..
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..
aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; b….
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 ….
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament..
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….
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'..