We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

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

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings