The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realise the deadliness of principles. (Ch. 21) - Dorothy L. Sayers

Mr. Hankin: ...the biggest obstacle to good advertising is the client.

Lord Peter Wimsey: Everybody suspects an eager desire to curry favour, but rudeness, for some reason, is always accepted as a guarantee of good faith. The only man who ever managed to see through rudeness was Saint Augustine.

The art of change-ringing is peculiar to the English, and, like most English peculiarities, unintelligible to the rest of the world.