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

Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.

When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

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