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

But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

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

Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.