 Flowers are happy things. |
| It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. |
| I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. |
| It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. |
| She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when." |
| Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. |
| The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. |
| Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character. |
| He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!" |
| To find a man's true character, play golf with him. |
| She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel. |
| Golf, like measles, should be caught young. |
| The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. |
| Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting. |
| Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks. |
| Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum. |
| Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. |
| Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed. |
| There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. |
| I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose. |
