A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition..

But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round t….

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change..

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear..

Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore….

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder..

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amon….

It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you..

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat..

Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy..

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men..

the relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemen….

The nicest people fall in love indiscriminately ... while under the influence of that pre-eminently selfish lunacy they may make the most outrageous ….

Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few….

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that i….

It was a little skirmish across a century..

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by t….

It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart..

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of po….