I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me." "People have been wrongly condemned before now." "Exactly; simply because I wasn't there." "I never thought of that.

There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

Britain possesses no climate, only weather.