"It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take…"

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' (quoting John Greenleaf Whittier)"

""Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary," murmured Psmith. (Earlier usage of the precise words "Elementary, my dear W…"

"Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it."

"So was victory turned into defeat, and Billy's jaw became squarer and his eye more full of the light of battle than e…"

"The village of Market Blandings is one of those sleepy hamlets which modern progress has failed to touch... The churc…"

"In English country towns, if the public houses do not actually outnumber the inhabitants, they all do an excellent tr…"

"At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his iden…"

"‘As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.’"

"Routine is the death to heroism."