Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.