It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

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.

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

I always feel like one of the guys and very unintimidated.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

I so owed Arianna, that undead little genius.

As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.

I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

I'm not interested in attacking, I'm interested in astonishing.

She might not be as beautiful, or as smart or as rich as all the rest of them. But she had her pride