A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.

She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.