It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.