Honoria Lucasta, Dowager Duchess of Denver: It's so much better to do things neatly and properly, even stupid things. - Dorothy L. Sayers

Lord Peter Wimsey: It’s my belief most of us would only be too pleased to chuck these community hysterics if the beastly newspapers didn’t run it for all it’s worth. However, it won’t do to say so. (on Remembrance Day observances)

Somehow or other, and with the best of intentions, we have shown the world the typical Christian in the likeness of a crashing and rather ill-natured bore—and this in the name of one who assuredly never bored a soul in those thirty-three years during which he passed through the world like a flame.

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