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

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.

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

If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!

I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw hat.