Jill the Reckless

Marriage isn't a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. It's a partnership, and what's the good of a partnership if your heart's not in it

Why not let your spine stay where it is instead of having it kicked up through your hat?

I would beard him in his lair, if he had a beard. Well, I'll clean-shave him in his lair

And I'm glad—glad—glad, if you don't mind my quoting Pollyanna for a moment. I hope it chokes him!"

She fought panic eye to eye, and beat it down

The English language is the richest in the world, and yet somehow in moments when words count most we generally choose the wrong ones

From childhood up, she had never been able to cure herself of an unfortunate sensitiveness when sharply spoken to by those she loved

light comedy of the tea-cup school

The stalls were ablaze with jewellery and crackling with starched shirt-fronts

If I were an ass like Algy Martyn," said Derek, "I wouldn't go about advertising the fact that I'd been born. I'd hush it up!