“You might very well think that - I couldn't possibly comment.”
“I don't think you can very well give people as presents: they might not like it.”
“How was it even possible to know if your brain was malfunctioning, because the very thing you need to think it all through is the very thing that might be playing up in the first place”
“When I make a pretty good hook (...) she gives me a toothless smile and an unintelligeble comment I think might be praise.”
“I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.”
“Well, damme, William, I am sorry: I am very sorry, indeed I am. But injustice is a rule of the service, as you know very well; and since you have to have a good deal of undeserved abuse, you might just as well have it from your friends.”