It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.