I first set the needle on this record and bingo! the whole mechanism begins: the record player's arm tugs at a thread as the record plays; the thread pulls over this glass and lets this marble loose;...

When you knew you were going to hang, the only thing to do was grin at the noose.

Burn you, Nerim, that's a leg not a bloody side of beef!As my lord says, Nerim murmured. My lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my lord, for instructing me.

We English have perfect eyesight.Alec finally turned to look at her. Are you jesting with me, wife?You decide, husband.Aye, you are, Alec answered. I've already learned all about the English sense of...

Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.

You're taller than I am, but I'm stronger, and meaner right this minute than you could ever imagine - Lady Madelyne.

I've just vowed my love for you. Have you nothing to say in return?" Duncan asked."Thank you, husband.

I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not.

Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea.

Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.

Yesterday Allison bought me nail polish in the annoying shade of mauve. How can anyone look at me and think mauve?

Jocks usually aren't smart. Their muscles feast on their brains.

Now, paper and pencils, said Miss Marcy, clapping her hands.Writing paper is scarce in this house, and I had no intention of tearing sheets out of this exercise book, which is a superb sixpenny one...

We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls,...

And as the wicked are always ungrateful, and necessity leads to evil doing, and immediate advantage overcomes all considerations of the future, Ginés, who was neither grateful nor well-principled,...

I don't believe in witches, but there are, there are.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick?

There's just one thing I want you to remember. You know those chemicals women have in them, when they've got PMS? Well, men have the very same chemicals in them all the time.

I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.

She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then...

I don't believe this. How can he not want to go to the Savoy? God, it's all right for top businessmen, isn't it? Free champagne, yawn, yawn. Goody bags, yet another party, yawn, how tedious and dull.

So, says Jack at at last...you broke up with Connor.Wow. So we're straight to the point. So, I reply defiantly. You decided to stay.Yes, well..., I thought I might take a closer look at some of the...

I'm never going to believe a Poirot mystery again. Never. All those witnesses going, "Yes, I remember it was 3:06 p.m. exactly, because I glanced at the clock as I reached for the sugar tongs, and...

Don't think about it. Don't think about what could have been. It's too unbearable.

They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.