The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.