14 Quotes by Edgar Wallace

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.

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.

Moreover, Ray prided himself upon that confusion of standards which is called “broad-mindedness.

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!

Vanity takes no more obnoxious form than the everlasting desire for approval.