I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.

Mr Beach was too well bred to be inquisitive, but his eyebrows here not. 'Ah!' he said. '?', cried the eyebrows. '? ? ?' Ashe ignored the eyebrows. ... Mr Beach's eyebrows were still mutely urging him to reveal all, but Ashe directed his gaze at that portion of the room which Mr Beach did not fill. He was hanged if he was going to let himself be hypnotized by a pair of eyebrows into incriminating himself.

Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

It's not that I don't trust you, Dunstable, it's simply that I don't trust you.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.