If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

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.

All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.

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

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.

There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.