Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.

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

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.