To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Advertising never sold a bad product twice.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.