I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it..

the ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments.

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achie….

It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul..

Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat….

Flowers are happy things..

Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, addin….

We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures..

She had more curves than a scenic railway.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror..

I wouldn't have a face like that,' proceeded the child, with a good deal of earnestness, 'not if you gave me a million dollars.' He thought for a mom….

She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils….

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse..

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?.

The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin..

It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody..

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?.

I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library w….

Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have rere….

Mr Beach was too well bred to be inquisitive, but his eyebrows here not. 'Ah!' he said. '?', cried the eyebrows. '? ? ?' Ashe ignored the eyebrows. .….

It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it..