Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.