The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.