Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and the nature of an and the ultimate nature of the universe; it is a war of dogma.

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

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

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

That there is a secret itself is a secret.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.