Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and — Brian O'Nolan

"I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind."

"Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man."

"After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a mans body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?"

"My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings."

"You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if you kill me?"

"One beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings."