Quotes About Sayers

Don't be so damned discouraging, said Wimsey. I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me. People have been wrongly condemned before now. Exactly; simply because I wasn't there. I never thought of that.

I say--I've thought of a good plot for a detective story. Really? Top--hole. You know, the sort that people bring out and say 'I've often thought of doing it myself, if only I could find time to sit down and write it.' I gather that sitting down is all that is necessary for producing masterpieces.

By all means,' said Harriet. 'Where did you come from?' 'From London--like a bird that hears the call of its mate.' 'I didn't-- began Harriet. 'I didn't mean you. I meant the corpse. But still, talking of mates, will you marry me?

The glass-blower's cat is bompstable," said Mr. Parker aloud and distinctly.

Damn it, she writes detective stories and in detective stories virtue is always triumphant. They're the purest literature we have.

I beg your pardon, said Lord Peter, I was quoting poetry. Very silly of me. I got the habit at my mother's knee and I can't break myself of it.

Wonder whether Mussolini's mother spanked him too much or too little--you never know, these psychological days. Can distinctly remember spanking Peter, but it doesn't seem to have warped him much, so psychologists very likely all wrong.

I s'pose you couldn't get 'em to bring it in 'Death by the Visitation of God,' could you, Biggs?'' suggested Lord Peter. ''Sort of judgment for wantin' to marry into our family, what?

Thank God!' said Wimsey. 'Where there is a church, there is civilisation.

I wanted it all to be wonderful for you.' She waited for him to find his own answer to this, which he did with disarming swiftness. 'That's vanity, I suppose. Take pen and ink and write it down. His lordship is in the enjoyment of very low spirits, owing to his inexplicable inability to bend Providence to his own designs.

and to know, by his ironical eyes, that he perfectly well understood the reason of her unusual meekness.

I set out in a lordly manner to offer you heaven and earth. I find that all I have to give you is Oxford—which is yours already.

They passed through the billiard-room, where the Colonel was making a sensational break, and into the small conservatory which led from it. Lord

I don't think much of your burglary, Bunter,' said Lord Peter.

Jerrykins, or Pickled Gherkins. Lord Peter was not one of those born uncles who delight old nurses by their

But we can never hope for a whole jury-box full of ecclesiastical diehards.

The long white fingers tamped the tobacco firmly into the bowl and struck a match.

Me parece que lees demasiado —dijo lord Peter—, y la lectura de la filosofía, por ejemplo, tiene una influencia embrutecedora.

And it is signed simply 'M.' A very cold letter, you may think—almost hostile in tone. And yet the appointment is made for 9:30.

You yourselves will be able to judge whether that is a usual and natural form of expression

The fenman gazed at Wimsey with a slow pity for his bird-witted feebleness of mind.

Bloody little fool!" said Sergeant Bunter.

is mathematically compounded of ambition, distraction, uglification and derision

May we take it that he was in exceptionally lively spirits?" suggested Counsel. "Take it in any spirit you like," muttered the witness, adding, more happily, "Take a peg of John Begg.