It’s like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, they usually admit it – often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose their head and do the most absurd things.
However deep you bury an unpleasantness a dog will always root it up again.
Even the most sober of us is liable to have his head turned by success.
You’re apt to be done down, you know, if you don’t speak anything but good American.
You know what they tell you to do when you’re assessing the value of your hand? If you’re defending – count the winners – but if you’re attacking count the losers.
With precision of the fingers goes precision of the brain.
When you find that people are not telling you the truth – look out!
When do you notice an individual murder least? When it is one of a series of related murders.
What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.
What do most people mean when they say that? So young. Something innocent, something appealing, something helpless. But youth is not that! Youth is crude, youth is strong, youth is powerful – yes, and cruel! And one thing more – youth is vulnerable.
