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

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.