“Well, the English have no family feelings. That is, none of the kind you mean. They have them, and one of them is that relations must cause no expense.”

“The wrong is never the only thing a wrong-doer has done.”

“People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.”

“Did you ever notice how the words Attention and Alienation look the same when you are staring at them from a distance?”

“Do you have to skulk about like that?""No, I don't suppose I have to skulk about.... I simply enjoy doing so.""Well, it's a very vulgar habit.”

“To a Mormon at the doorstep of a psychologis: I know what you think you think, but I know what you think.”

“Don't you have somewhere you need to be?" she gritted. "The kitchen? The sewers? The fires of hell?”