If I'm not going to be a great actor, I shall be a great something else.

God doesn't put such things into people's heads for nothing.

He didn't take me from the factory in Bludston and set me here with you, walking up Regent Street, like a gentleman, just to throw me back into the gutter." "But who said you were going back to the gutter ?" asked Jane.
"Nobody.

I wanted to get right with myself.

But--that getting right with oneself--do you think it egotistic ?" "I don't quite know what that is." He defined the term.
"No," she said seriously.