If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.