Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 15, 1890 Death: January 12, 1976
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation..
Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is..
marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge..
The tragedy of life is that people do not change..
Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor ….
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do..
Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN..
Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself..
I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate ….
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash..
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to revea….
A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man..
"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters.".
I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem….
too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being..
It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap..
all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend..
These little grey cells. It is up to them..
The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows..
One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always c….
Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even i….