Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
These blondes, sir, they're responsible for a lot of trouble.
I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like th...
I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves, said Joanna. It arouses all my worst instincts.
A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.
There! Now we're friends! declared the minx. Say you're sorry about my sister -I am desolated!That's a good boy!
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the...
One always has hope for human nature
I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling.
I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.
He laughs best who laughs at the end.
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
Death was for-the other people.
...It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside.
To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception
There was something magical about an island—the mere word suggested fantasy. You lost touch with the world—an island was a world of its own. A world, perhaps, from which you might never return.
Several very suprising things have occurred. To begin with, I met Augustus Milray, the most perfect example of an old ass the present Government has produced. His manner oozed diplomatic secrecy as he...
Men are so superior about their Latin, said Mrs. Blair. But all the same I notice that when you ask them to translate inscriptions in old churches, they can never do it! They hem and haw, and get out...
I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.