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 only Christian work is good work, well done

And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with his daily life and thought.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

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.

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.