The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

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