Did you ever taste beer?''I had a sip of it once,' said the small servant. 'Here's a state of things!' cried Mr Swiveller . . . . 'She never" tasted it - it can't be tasted in a sip!'"

"He'd be sharper than a serpent's tooth, if he wasn't as dull as ditch water."

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

"Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a Sedan chair."

Life is given to us on the definite understanding that we boldly defend it to the last.