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.
You’re apt to be done down, you know, if you don’t speak anything but good American.
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
The body – the cage – is everything of the most respectable – but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
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.
If you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs.
