I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

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.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.