“Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.”

“Roderick Spode is the founder of the Saviours of Britain, a fascist organisation better know as the 'Black Shorts'...When you say 'shorts' mean 'shirts', of course.No. By the time Spode formed his association, there were no shirts left. He and his adherents wear black shorts.Footer bags, you mean?Yes.How perfectly foul.”

“Presently, I was aware that Jeeves was with me. I hadn't heard him come in, but you often don't with Jeeves. He just streams silently from spot A to spot B, like some gas.”

“Bingo swayed like a jelly in a high wind.”

“He looked like a Dictator on the point of starting a purge.”

“I turned round and Jeeves shied like a startled mustang.”

“He was more like something out of Dickens than anything human.”