I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

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

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.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

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

Very dangerous things, theories.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

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.

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

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity and indeed the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man but if you tell people so they stare at you in bewilderment.

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough they generally run away.

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

Life itself is a quotation.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.