Sublime

major Forsythe, vous ne pouvez pas continuer ainsi. – Ne craignez rien, amie, je cesserai de boire dès que je serai parmi les éléphants. Ce qui me pousse à me saouler, c'est la compagnie de mes semblables. Je peux en supporter un, le matin, deux au maximum dans la journée, mais vers quatre ou cinq heures de l'après-midi, je ne peux plus du tout en

There are so few men in Carlingford who can flirt," said Lucilla regretfully. Her eyes fell as she spoke upon young Osmond Brown, who was actually at that moment talking to Mr Bury's curate, with a disregard of his social duties painful to contemplate.

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

Chesterton, un autre amoureux du pub (abréviation de Public House),

The morality of a great writer is not the morality he teaches, but the morality he takes for granted.

Pickwickian

“My God in Heaven!” he said; “is it possible that there is within the four seas of Britain a man who takes Notting Hill seriously?” “And my God in Heaven!” said Wayne passionately; “is it possible that there is within the four seas of Britain a man who does not take it seriously?”

Assistant: No, no – we don’t have Rarnaby Budge by Charles Dikkens with two ‘k’s, the well-known Dutch author, and perhaps to save time I should add right away that we don’t have Carnaby Fudge by Darles Tikkens, or Stickwick Stapers by Miles Pikkens with four ‘M’s and a silent ‘Q’; why don’t you try the chemist? Mr Pest: I did. They sent me here.