Quotes from The Detection Club

May all your problems be fictional and of your own devising, and may it be a very long time until you come to pen the words 'the end'.

We judge one another by our outward actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by our own private interpretation of the matter, we can see only the one possible motive behind the action, so that our solution may be quite plausible, quite coherent, and quite wrong.

I regret, my lord, to have seen no recent fashions designed to impress homicidal Archbishops.