As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
From Dorothy L. Sayers
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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.
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
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.
There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
Very dangerous things, theories.
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
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