Very few of us are what we seem.

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

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