“The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style”

“I saw something nasty in the woodshed.”

“But Julia thought it would be a much better idea if they went to see Mr Dan Langham in 'On Your Toes!' at the New Hippodrome, so they went there instead and had a nice time instead of a nasty one.”

“That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.”

“Women are all alike-- aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride....”

“It is rather frightening to be able to write so revoltingly, yet so successfully. All these letters are works of art, except, perhaps, the last. They are positively oily.”

“Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.”