I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had eyes in ones knees, it would be a lot more practical’… ‘What luck! Here’s a deep, damp ditch on the other side, which I shall now proceed to fall into.’ A slithering crash proclaimed that he had carried out his intention.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.

She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

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.