Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

People see what they expect to see.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck.

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

The Bible is a Perfect Map and Chart to the Christian on Pilgrimage Through the World.

America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

I use nothing but homeopathic remedies, for my girls as well.

We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.