She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.

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.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

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 and tears inseparable from an author’s...

To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.

Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced...

The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general...

The Bishop was talking to the local Master of Hounds about the difficulty he had in keeping his vicars off the incense.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man...

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

If I had had to choose between him and a cockroach as a companion for a walking-tour, the cockroach would have had it by a short head.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

Why don’t you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.