Mrs Varden was a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper - a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

And you'd find your father rather a tough customer in argeyment, Joe, if anybody was to try and tackle him.

Whether they were right or wrong in this conjecture, certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere exce…

You will not have forgotten that it was a maxim with Foxey - our revered father, gentlemen - 'Always suspect everybody.' That's the maxim to go through life wi…

She behaves with all the sensitivity of a sex-starved boa constrictor

He had the kind of handshake that ought never to be used except as a tourniquet.

You can deny all you want that there is etiquette, and a lot of people do in everyday life. But if you behave in a way that offends the people you're trying to…