An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.