Aunty Azalea was always the eccentric one in a family not widely famed for an extravagant excess of marbles.

It’ll be just like Romeo and Juliet,” I said, “without the emotive poetry of a suicide pact —

It’s very much its own reward, I find, spending other people’s money.

We don’t seize the moment, there’ll be another foreign skirmish or some American flying a hot air balloon to the moon or someplace...

I believe that Americans will buy anything so long as someone else buys one first.

This is the rummiest ingredient of this rum cocktail.

You’ll probably want to jump straight to the punchline, in future, when recounting the discovery of a murder.

She was to bashfulness what that Pythagoras chap was to sorting out the area of the She was to bashfulness what that Pythagoras chap was to sorting out the area of the square of the hypotenuse once and for all.