All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

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

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

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

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