Well-bred English People Never Have Imagination.

... To Mention Honor Was To Suggest Its Opposite.

What We Make Is More Important Than What We Are, Particularly If Making Is Our Profession.

Never Think That Wars Are Irrational Catastrophes: They Happen When Wrong Ways Of Thinking And Living Bring About Intolerable Situations ... The Root Causes Of Conflict Are Usually To Be Found In Some Wrong Way Of Life In Which All Parties Have Acquiesced, And For Which Everybody Must, To Some Extent, Bear The Blame.

The Autobiography Is At One And The Same Time A Single Element In The Series Of The Writer's Created Works And An Interpretation Of The Whole Series.

Make No Mistake About It, The Detective-story Is Part Of The Literature Of Escape, And Not Of Expression.