And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left..

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it..

It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterward….

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave..

Things never come when they are expected..

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it..

He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ….

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books..

He laughs best who laughs at the end..

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite..

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate..

You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!.

There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She was a beautiful woman, and she loved me. Strange, ….

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you..

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen..

God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty….

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….

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters.".

I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it..

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?.

too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being..