She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

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

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.