There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

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.

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

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

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.