The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

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.

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.

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

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.