Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers learn it now at their mother's knee.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

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.

(One character on another:)"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?

There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.

There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

It began of nothing and in nothing ends.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

We're picking on people we can beat.

Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.

I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when you're afloat on a little dingy in the midst of it all.

What you are looking for is within you Fall silent a moment and contemplate what that means... You lack nothing.

When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.