I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learned nothing-perhaps in particular if we learned nothing-our contribution to the discussion may have a potential value.

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.