Best 9 quotes of Robert Barr on MyQuotes

No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another

Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared. He uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects and will take greater risks in carrying them out than any other malefactor on earth.

Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.

The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke

It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible. ("The Vengeance Of The Dead")

The old squire died as a gentleman should, of apoplexy, in his armchair, with a decanter at his elbow. ("The Vengeance Of The Dead")

The young man went to India, where he was drowned. As there is no mystery in this matter, it may as well be stated here that young Heaton ultimately returned to England, as drowned men have ever been in the habit of doing, when their return will mightily inconvenience innocent persons who have taken their places. It is a disputed question whether the sudden disappearance of a man, or his reappearance after a lapse of years, is the more annoying. ("The Vengeance Of The Dead")

When you consider that a human being has the opportunity of being acquainted with only a few hundred people, and out of the few hundred that there are but a dozen or less whom he knows intimately, and out of the dozen, one or two friends at most, it will easily be seen, when we remember the number of millions who inhabit this world, that probably, since the earth was created, the right man has never yet met the right woman.