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

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.