A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and the nature of an and the ultimate nature of the universe; it is a war of dogma.

Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may." "I will give the footman orders to admit you," said the prisoner, gravely, "you will always find me at home.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.