The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowle….

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive..

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade..

Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race..

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there..

Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose..

If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable..

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes..

Nothing great ever came out of common sense..

It is not possible to love and be wise..

The worst of pushing horrible things down into one's subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they had been in a refrigera….

Weak people can be very stubborn..

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sal….

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write..

Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think?.

It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to….

Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books..

In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior..

It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itsel….

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men..

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing..