Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had eyes in ones knees, it would be a lot more practical’… ‘What luck! Here’s a deep, damp ditch on the other side, which I shall now proceed to fall into.’ A slithering crash proclaimed that he had carried out his intention.