Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character. |
The Bishop was talking to the local Master of Hounds about the difficulty he had in keeping his vicars off the incense. |
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 atmosphere of leisured cosiness. |
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. |
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. |
The lunches of fifty-seven years had caused his chest to slip down to the mezzanine floor. |
The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'When!' |
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. |
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 eye on its younger sons. |
Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum. |