Quotes from A.A. Fair

There's enough of the social climber in most people so that they fall for this stuff and consider it a privilege to be admitted to a place that specializes in taking their money.

He said it with the air of a man who always demands the best, and then settles for what he can get.

Bertha Cool barged on into the room like a fortified tank moving in on an enemy front line of entrenchments. "I'm Bertha Cool," she said. "I'm a detective. Cut out the lollygagging and get the hell down to business.

if you want to be really lonely, try a big city. Everyone's a stranger, and if you don't have just the right kind of contacts, they remain strangers.