Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

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.

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

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.