Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

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

Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.