Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.