Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

[of Spode] He was, as I had already been able to perceive, a breath-taking cove. About seven feet in height, and swathed in a plaid ulster which made him look …

'Oh Brancepeth,' said the girl, her voice trembling, 'why haven't you any money? If only you had the merest pittance - enough for a flat in Mayfair and a littl…

This is to explain just how your mom turned out to be the kind of hairpin she is.

'Alf Todd,' said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, 'has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound …

'I want to know what the devil you mean by keeping coming into my private apartment, taking up space which I require for other purposes and interrupting me whe…