the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it