He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.