Sublime

« Un gentleman ne parle jamais des femmes avec qui il a couché ni des impôts qu’il a payés, me confia-t-il un jour.

Assistant: . . . I beg your pardon? Mr Pest: No, Edmund Wells. Assistant: . . . I think you’ll find Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield, sir. Mr Pest: No, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield with two ‘p’s. This is David Coperfield with one ‘p’ by Edmund Wells. Assistant: (a little sharply) Well, in that case we don’t have it. Mr Pest: Funny

Men can enjoy life under considerable limitations, if they can be sure of their limited enjoyments;

It’s like being trapped with a man who can’t stop reciting limericks.