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He’s got that silly slighting way of talking that these boys have nowadays—sneering at people sticking up for their school or the Empire or that sort of thing. And then, of course, the clothes he wears!”
Always the present generation degrading the next. Younger people are always more rude, less stylish and always rebellious… at least according to the previous generation. Tale as old as time.
Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory.
Colonel Melchett silently marvelled at the amount of aids to beauty that women could use.
“Do you mean to say,” he murmured feebly, “that women use all these things?”
“Good lord!” said the Colonel. “No wonder the people who turn out these creams and messes make a fortune.” “Easy money, that’s what it is,” said Slack. “Easy money.
Ruby Keene, so he admitted privately, might have asked for what was coming to her, but Pamela Reeves was quite another story. A nice kid, if he ever saw one.
This is great writing. You understand the position of the author as well as that of the character. While at the same time humanizing a fictional person.
“An alibi is the fishiest thing on God’s earth! No innocent person ever has an alibi!
It’s not what I say to my patients, Superintendent, but a man may as well wear out as rust out.
Women accept a son-in-law as one of the family easily enough, but there aren’t many times when a woman looks on her son’s wife as a daughter.”
You simply cannot afford to believe everything that people tell you.
It has been said, you know (and, I think, quite truly), that you can only really get under anybody’s skin if you are married to them.
