The shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.

P. G. Wodehouse · The source reads: “Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.” · The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)

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

P. G. Wodehouse · The Code of the Woosters (1938)

The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

P. G. Wodehouse · Ordeal by Golf (1922)

To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.

P. G. Wodehouse

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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

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Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?

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I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 4 December 1952

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“The shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.”

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

“The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.”

“To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.”

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?”

“I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.”