It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

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.

No you sick, stupid creep, I love you. I shouldn't. I shouldn't. You're sick inside, Caine, sick! But I love you. - Diana

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

The light in my soul is inextinguishable.

When you seek love in every steps of life, love will seek you every moment of life.

Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime.

A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.

It is wise to remember that too much success in the stock market is in itself an excellent warning.

Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.