It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

Very dangerous things, theories.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

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.