4 Quotes by J. Jefferson Farjeon

Yes—I think you’re correct,” he nodded as he returned. “It isn’t saying much, sergeant, but you’re not quite the fool you look.”“Very kind of you to say so,” grunted the sergeant.“Not at all. Haven’t you noticed how full of compliments I am?

We like to believe ourselves sympathetic, but, in truth, Nature has designed us, perhaps necessarily, to be callous. A murder in Newcastle is of less importance than a cut finger in our own home, and therefore Winifred Mostyn was only mildly interested. All at once, however, the mildness evaporated. In the next column a name had caught her eye.

As his figure joined the toilet articles in the mirror, he paused and questioned it.'I say—who was the last figure reflected here?' he asked. 'The one before you?'The reflection stared back solemnly. It knew no more than did its origin. And mirrors themselves never reveal their secrets. If they did, their stories would put those of mere novelists to shame.

A woman may be as old as she feels, to herself,' she said, 'but to a man she is as old as she looks.