“Angela nearly got inhaled by a shark while aquaplaning.”

“I've found, as a general rule of life, that the things you think are going to be the scaliest nearly always turn out not so bad after all.”

“I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.”

“But, Bill, old scout, your sister says there's a most corking links near here."He turned and stared at me, and nearly ran us into the bank."You don't mean honestly she said that?""She said you said it was better than St. Andrews.""So I did. Was that all she said I said?""Well, wasn't it enough?""She didn't happen to mention that I added the words, 'I don't think'?""No, she forgot to tell me that.""It's the worst course in Great Britain.”

“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”

“Tea, pa!" said Charlotte, starting at the word like the old war-horse who hears the bugle; and we got down to it.”

“I was in that painful condition which occurs when one has lost one's first wind and has not yet got one's second.”