"I don't like eloquence. If it isn't effective enough to pierce your hide, it's tiresome, and if it is effective enoug…"

"Emotions are useless during business hours."

"All successful bunko men come in time to believe the world, except for themselves, is populated with a race of human …"

"I didn't know then, and I don't know now, whether she was the owner of the world's best poker face or was just natura…"

"But where knowledge of trickery is evenly distributed, honesty not infrequently prevails."

"Stop, you idiot!" I bawled at her. Her face laughed over her shoulder at me. She walked without haste to the door, he…"

""Remember, I've got no idea what this is all about," said the girl when they were in the living room, a narrow room, …"

"Did it ever occur to you that everybody is more or less afraid of nearly everything, and that courage isn't a damn th…"

""Tall-over six feet-and one of the thinnest men I’ve ever seen. He must be about fifty now and his hair was almost wh…"

"If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later."