There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse.

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.