A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

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.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.