The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.

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.

If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

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.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.