Listen," said T. X., grasping an ivory paperknife savagely…

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

— Edgar Wallace

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

— Edgar Wallace

“You see you left a little thumb print, and we are rather whales on thumb prints at Scotland Yard, Fisher.”

— Edgar Wallace

“I sent for you, Mansus, because I suffer from the illusion that you have more brains than most of the people in my department,…

— Edgar Wallace

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

— Edgar Wallace

“I should prefer being thrown to the demnition ducks and drakes," he said moodily.”

— Edgar Wallace

“don't know whether there's a law that stops my doing this, Jim; but if there is, you've got to get round it. You're a…

— Edgar Wallace

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

— Edgar Wallace

In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured…

— Edgar Wallace

“He is very rich, has no relations, and has a passion for power." "Then he'll be hung," said the Chief, rising. "I doubt it,"…

— Edgar Wallace

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

— Edgar Wallace

“...mankind is not perfect, less perfect is womankind, and least perfect is that section of mankind which employs servants.”

— Edgar Wallace

“I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the…

— Edgar Wallace

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

— 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…

— Edgar Wallace