It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

Nowadays LOVE and GOD has become a tool for franking people. So beware of being used.

If you want the windows of opportunity be opened for you, Do not neglect to create a goal.

The structure is there, and will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.

Please select a card. No I don't have to see the card...I've already seen this trick.

There's something whimsical, satirical, and silly about British humor, which Americans have always enjoyed, and lots of us come over here because we have an audience of people who enjoy it.

If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.

The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.