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“An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”
― Edgar Wallace

“Vanity takes no more obnoxious form than the everlasting desire for approval.”
― Edgar Wallace, Complete Works of Edgar Wallace

“I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the kitchen poker.”
― Edgar Wallace, The Casefiles of Mr. J.G. Reeder

“Non ho mai seguito valori illusori, come il successo, ma ho cercato e trovato dei punti di forza che mi hanno consentito una concezione più ampia del mondo, una sempre rinnovata capacità di gratitudine nei confronti dei miei simili e una sincera umiltà che mi assiste oggi, mentre dalla mia piccola posizione di vantaggio lungo il cammino che va verso l'alto e non finisce mai, guardo la pazienza ammirevole e il coraggio di quelli che dietro di me lottano ancora.”
― Edgar Wallace

“don't know whether there's a law that stops my doing this, Jim; but if there is, you've got to get round it. You're a lawyer and you know the game. You're my pal and the best pal I've had, Jim, and you'll do it for me." The dying man looked”
― Edgar Wallace, The Green Rust

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land or sea, and illustrating his instruction or his admonition with the quaintest phraseology.”
― Edgar Wallace, The Clue of the Twisted Candle

“Later in the morning a messenger brought Mr Reeder to the chief's office, and he arrived with that ineffable air of apology and diffidence which gave the uninitiated such an altogether wrong idea of his calibre.”
― Edgar Wallace, The Casefiles of Mr. J.G. Reeder

“dead!” She burst into a fresh storm of sobs. Jimmy left it to the local C.I.D. to watch the house. “Though I do not expect we shall catch the birds,” he said, “for either the boy or the woman will communicate with them — that is certain.” He snatched a few hours’ sleep and was again at his desk by noon, interviewing such of the privileged reporters as had the entree to his office. Whether Dora had come to town or not he did not know, for his inquiries took him away from the house in Portland Place. He neither saw nor heard from Knowles; the little man seemed to have disappeared as completely and as mysteriously as any of those who had gone before him. His landlady reported that he had not returned to the house,”
― Edgar Wallace, The Complete Works of Edgar Wallace

“I should prefer being thrown to the demnition ducks and drakes," he said moodily.”
― Edgar Wallace, The Clue of the Twisted Candle

“wie ein dürrer, kahler Fels steht mein zerstörtes Leben in der Brandung des Weltalls.”
― Edgar Wallace, Fünf Kriminalgeschichten

“...mankind is not perfect, less perfect is womankind, and least perfect is that section of mankind which employs servants.”
― Edgar Wallace

“You see you left a little thumb print, and we are rather whales on thumb prints at Scotland Yard, Fisher.”
― Edgar Wallace, The Clue of the Twisted Candle

“three”
― Edgar Wallace, The Crimson Circle

“London waited, waited in patience, orderly, content to stare steadfastly at nothing, deriving no satisfaction for their weakness but the sense of being as near as it was humanly possible to be to the scene of a tragedy.”
― Edgar Wallace, The Four Just Men

“Moreover, Ray prided himself upon that confusion of standards which is called "broad-mindedness.”
― Edgar Wallace, Detective Sgt. (Insp.) Elk: The complete 6-novel-series. Silinski – Master Criminal; The Fellowship of the Frog; The Joker; The Twister; The India-Rubber ... Face

“He is very rich, has no relations, and has a passion for power." "Then he'll be hung," said the Chief, rising. "I doubt it," said the other, "people with lots of money seldom get hung. You only get hung for wanting money.”
― Edgar Wallace, The Clue of the Twisted Candle

“I sent for you, Mansus, because I suffer from the illusion that you have more brains than most of the people in my department, and that's not saying much.”
― Edgar Wallace, The Clue of the Twisted Candle

“have nothing to give you,” he said, “save this advice —that you return swiftly to where you came from and carry my word to your chief. Later I will come and make inquiries.” The men were not satisfied, and an elder, wrinkled with age, and sooty-grey of head, spoke up. “It is said, master,” he mumbled, through his toothless jaws, “that in other lands when men starve there come many white men bringing grain and comfort.”
― Edgar Wallace, The Complete Works of Edgar Wallace

“In newspaper-land a dull lie is seldom detected, but an interesting exaggeration drives an unimaginative rival to hysterical denunciations.”
― Edgar Wallace, Four Just Men

“out by the Mail's proprietor Alfred Harmsworth,”
― Edgar Wallace, Mr. Reeder Returns

“Listen," said T. X., grasping an ivory paperknife savagely in his hand and tapping his blotting-pad to emphasize his words, "you're a pie!”
― Edgar Wallace, The Clue of the Twisted Candle

“He was discovering what many young men in love have to discover: that the glamour which surrounds their dears does not extend to the relations and friends of their dears.”
― Edgar Wallace, Fellowship of the Frog

“»Auf schwarzdunklem Moor oder felswildem Strand Leg' ich mich nieder, wegmüd und krank. Kalt wölbt sich der Himmel von West nach Ost, Weder Mantel noch Decke schützt mich vor Frost. Nur kaltfunkelnde Sterne halten still Wacht – Wer weiß, wo ich ruhn werde in dieser Nacht!«”
― Edgar Wallace, Fünf Kriminalgeschichten

“the top of a batch of envelopes and”
― Edgar Wallace, Das Geheimnisvolle Haus

“Howling apples!" gasped T. X. "It's from John Lexman!”
― Edgar Wallace, The Clue of the Twisted Candle

“THE 4.15 FROM VICTORIA TO Lewes had been held up at Three Bridges in consequence of a derailment and, though John Lexman was fortunate enough to catch a belated connection to Beston Tracey, the wagonette which was the sole communication between the village and the outside world had gone.”
― Edgar Wallace, The Clue of the Twisted Candle

“year. For John Lexman was a maker of cunning plots.”
― Edgar Wallace, The Clue of the Twisted Candle

“It was a quaint, quiet square, very typical of London, full of an accidental stillness.”
― Edgar Wallace, British Mysteries Boxed Set: 560+ Thriller Classics, Detective Stories & True Crime Stories

“wish”
― Edgar Wallace, The Complete Works of Edgar Wallace

“room after the tragedy, had put out the light. "And during the night you heard no sound whatever. Miss Ellerslie? Forgive me for repeating my questions to you, but I am trying to recall any sound which may have reached your ears during your wakeful hours, but which you dismissed from your thoughts as of no significance”
― Edgar Wallace, British Mysteries Boxed Set: 560+ Thriller Classics, Detective Stories & True Crime Stories