That there is a secret itself is a secret.

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.

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.

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.

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.