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.

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

This is the rummiest ingredient of this rum cocktail.

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

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...

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

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

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