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….

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….

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

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

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

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….

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

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

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them..

It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrag….

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….

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

Love so seldom means happiness..

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man..

I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnec….