Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things before breakfast.

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

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