You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

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

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.