Stephen Potter
Stephen Potter
Stephen Meredith Potterwas a British author best known for his mocking self-help books and their film and television derivatives...
art games practice theory winning
The theory and practice of gamesmanship orThe art of winning games without actually cheating.
slight
Yes, but not in the South', with slight adjustments, will do for any arguments about any place, if not about any person.
gone however man
How to be one up - how to make the other man feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly.
ask carpet circular friend means patterns says shoes
If your friend says of some picture, "Yes, but what does it mean?" ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes
ask carpet circular friend means patterns says shoes
If your friend says of some picture, ""Yes, but what does it mean?"" ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes
bouquet general good rule state vice
A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.
player games names
In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself a considerable name without ever actually having won a single game. Even the best players are sometimes beaten, and that is precisely what happens to me.
gains advantage
Each of us can, by ployorgambit, most naturally gain the advantage.
golf games caddies
Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you.
believe safety bird
Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond. "That's an easy one to tell. The frog-pippit." Then he would add, As a safety measure, "As I believe they call it in these parts."
book should-have done
Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better.
moving men tennis
In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly useful if your first service tends to be out in any case.
perfection withdrawal hints
Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession.
people
Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship.