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“You can have all sorts of symptoms, with only one disease,”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Great Mistake

“It is not for me to run here and there, doing amateurishly the things that for a small sum someone else can do with professional skill.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“Mr Lancelot Trotman looked like a very well-bred fish. Small head with pale blue cod’s eyes; a perfect sweep of chest and belly which seemed to curve right to his feet; and as he walked his legs moved from the knees only in a paddling motion, like swimming in air. The short fin-like arms, the white flapping hands and sensual lips which had a half-drinking expression permanently upon them, the straight nose. It was as if a magician had taken a large carp from a pond, blessed it, and sent it to Savile Row with orders to get dressed and become a man.”
― George Bellairs, Crime in Lepers' Hollow

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“As long as I have my trousers I have a hip-pocket, and as long as I have my hip-pocket I have something in it.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“It’s a very useful thing sometimes, an idea.”
― Agatha Christie, The Secret of Chimneys

“Yes, yes, it is as I say. You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes—two people. One is le bon Dieu—” He raised a hand to heaven, and then settling himself back in his chair and shutting his eyelids, he murmured comfortably: “And the other is Hercule Poirot.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train

“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

“He was a long, slender youth, with green eyes, jet-black hair, and a passionate fondness for the sound of his own voice.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

“It is possible, too, that, being there, you decided that you might as well go the whole hog and be manicured at the same time. It is not unlikely, moreover, that when you had got over the first shock of finding your hands so unexpectedly large and red, you felt disposed to chat with the young lady who looked after that branch of the business.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free-will, and of my own free-will I wore it.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“A positive light appeared to issue from Fezziwig’s calves. They shone in every part of the dance like moons. You couldn’t have predicted, at any given time, what would become of them next.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
― Anonymous, King James Bible Touch

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
― Anonymous, King James Bible Touch

“Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.”
― Anonymous, King James Bible Touch

“Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.”
― Anonymous, King James Bible Touch

“It is only when we are very happy, that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.”
― Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.”
― Anonymous, King James Bible Touch

“I was gotten into an employment quite remote to my genius, and directly contrary to the life I delighted in,”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“Once, soon after his arrival in London, he had allowed a dangerous fanatic to persuade him that the secret of health was to go without breakfast.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

“Once upon a time there was erected in Longacre Square, New York, a large white statue, labelled 'Our City', the figure of a woman in Grecian robes holding aloft a shield. Critical citizens objected to it for various reasons, but its real fault was that its symbolism was faulty. The sculptor should have represented New York as a conjuror in evening dress, smiling blandly as he changed a rabbit into a bowl of goldfish. For that, above all else, is New York's speciality. It changes. Between 1 May, when she stepped off the train, and 16 May, when she received Eddy Moore's letter containing the information that he had found her a post as stenographer”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

“the hand that counteth its chickens ere they be hatched oft-times doth but step on the banana-skin.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

“I added this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true sense of things, they will find deliverance from sin a much greater blessing than deliverance from affliction.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“all the good things of this world are no farther good to us, than as they are for our use: and that whatever we may heap up indeed to give to others, we enjoy as much as we can use, and no more.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:”
― Anonymous, King James Bible Touch

“Decency’s a dull dog,” retorted Aunt Becky. “I parted company with it long ago.”
― L.M. Montgomery, A Tangled Web

“away from a world where women bobbed their hair and you couldn’t tell who were grandmothers and who were flappers—from behind”
― L.M. Montgomery, A Tangled Web

“It is hard to understand why work should be called a curse—until one remembers what bitterness forced or uncongenial labour is. But the work for which we are fitted—which we feel we are sent into the world to do—what a blessing it is and what fulness of joy it holds.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“Louisa Alcott and Charlotte Yonge, and L. T. Meade, and a host of well-meaning women who wrote books for girls especially designed, it seemed, to induce a morbidly sentimental frame of mind.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Early Georgette Heyer Collection: The Transformation of Philip Jettan; The Black Moth; The Great Roxhythe; Instead of the Thorn; A Proposal To Cicely