The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

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

Time is the best killer.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.