An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

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

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

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

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.