Love so seldom means happiness.
People don’t alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.
There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
Waiting is one of the great arts.
If one cannot command attention by one’s admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.
There are only two kinds of men who become dentists. The ones who love it and ones who get miserable. Think round and you’ll see I’m right.
I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
She rose and followed her bust from the room.
Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.
A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.
A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it’s my only superstition.
I write every paragraph four times – once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.
It was a little skirmish across a century.
The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don’t you think?
Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.