Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues

Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.