 As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom. |
| The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. |
| Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. |
| The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. |
| Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous. |
| A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own. |
| Trouble shared is trouble halved. |
| Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. |
| I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home. |
| There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks. |
| Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. |
| Very dangerous things, theories. |
| Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. |
| A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. |
| I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. |
| Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. |
| While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern. |
| She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away. |
| The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless. |
| If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground. |
