Quotes from Edgar Wallace

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

It was a quaint, quiet square, very typical of London, full of an accidental stillness.

year. For John Lexman was a maker of cunning plots.

Howling apples!" gasped T. X. "It's from John Lexman!

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!«

It was Beauty. As always. Beauty killed him.

the top of a batch of envelopes and

This," said T. X. exultantly, as he read the advertisement, "is where I get busy.

What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.

An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.