Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no bett…

Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.

This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is- A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and th…

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

'So, do you live around here often?'