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

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

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

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

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.

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.