Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

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.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

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.

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.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.