The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part, and if he found that after a strong f...
Lady Kimbuck gave tongue. She was Lord Evenwood's sister. She spent a very happy widowhood interfering in the affairs of the various branches of her family.
If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
I always advise people never to give advice.
As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.
What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.
Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!
The Problem of Life seemed to him to be solved. He looked on down the years, and he could see no troubles there of any kind whatsoever. Reason suggested that there were probably one or two knocking ab...
He's such a dear, Mr. Garnet. A beautiful, pure, bred Persian. He has taken prizes.He's always taking something - generally food.
He had never measured a footprint in his life, and what he did not know about bloodstains would have filled a library.
[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, "What are my big scenes?" and then get every drop of juice out of them.",...
This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could...
I say! he said. Are you broke?Nelly laughed.
I did not rush in with the vim I would have displayed a year or so earlier, before Life had made me the grim, suspicious man I am to-day:
I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.
Had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.
Do you mind not intoning the responses, Jeeves? I said. This is a most complicated story for a man with a headache to have to tell, and if you interrupt you'll make me lose the thread. As a favour to...
Change of scene is the thing. I head of a man. Girl refused him. Man went abroad. Two months later girl wired him Come back, Muriel. Man started to write out a reply; suddenly found that he couldn't r...
It was my Uncle George who discovered alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter.