I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

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

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

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

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.

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

One place is very like another.