Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

Aig [F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig] 'e don't say much; 'e don't, so to say, say nothin'; but what 'e don't say don't mean nothin', not 'arf. But when 'e do say something--my Gawd!

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

There are two words for everything.

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.