Quotes About Lord Peter

His [Lord Peter's] long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola.

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.

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?

Have you any Scotch blood in you, Parker?" inquired his colleague, bitterly. "Not that I know of," replied Parker. "Why?" "Because of all the cautious, ungenerous, deliberate and cold-blooded devils I know," said Lord Peter, "you are the most cautious, ungenerous, deliberate and cold-blooded.

EXCELLENT, BUNTER," SAID LORD Peter, sinking with a sigh into a luxurious armchair. "I couldn't have done better myself. The thought of the Dante makes my mouth water—and the 'Four Sons of Aymon.' And you've saved me £60—that's

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

Hitherto, said Lord Peter, as they picked their painful way through the little wood on the trail of Gent's No. 10's, I have always maintained that those obliging criminals who strew their tracks with little articles of personal adornment--here he is, on a squashed fungus--were an invention of detective fiction for the benefit of the author. I see that I have still something to learn about my job.