"The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless." — Dorothy L. Sayers

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Very dangerous things, theories.

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

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.