People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

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?

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

There are only two kinds of men who become dentists. The ones who love it and ones who get miserable. Think round and you'll see I'm right.

I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.

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

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