Реки Лондона

Помощь прибыла в лице инспектора Неблетта. Едва увидев нас, он заявил:
— Ну никак вас нельзя оставить без присмотра!
Я не сомневался — он всю дорогу готовил эту реплику.

Старшему по званию перечить нельзя, будь ты хоть сто раз королева бюста.

Лесли — невысокая блондинка с беспардонно выпирающим бюстом, который не в силах скрыть даже бронежилет.

I was at that stage of drunk where you lie on your bed in the dark and the room goes whirling around you, and you're wondering about the nature of the universe and whether you can get to the sink before you throw up.

'Was your husband upset?’
‘How can you tell with an Englishman?’ asked Mrs Coopertown. ‘I went to get something for the blood and when I got back Brandon was laughing — everything is a joke to you people. I had to call the police myself. They came, Brandon showed them his nose and they started laughing. Everyone was happy, even the nasty little dog was happy.'

I faced the age-old dilemma of the London traveller - get out and walk or wait and hope.

We don't get to choose our family. Thank God we can choose our friends.

So Newton, like all good seventeenth-century intellectuals, wrote in Latin because that was the international language of science, philosophy and, I found out later, upmarket pornography.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

Equipment for ghost hunters: thermal underwear, very important; warm coat; thermos flask; patience; ghost.