No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.