As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth. - P. G. Wodehouse

I can't stand Paris. I hate the place. Full of people talking French, which is a thing I bar. It always seems to me so affected.

Aunt Agatha is like an elephant—not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets.

However devoutly a girl may worship the man of her choice, there always comes a time when she feels an irresistible urge to haul off and let him have it in the neck.