Quotes About Mystery

Riddlesdale Lodge at half-past four. Deceased

Bosh!' said Lord Peter.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Sherlock is my name and Holmes is my nature.

Oysters have beards, but they don't wag them.

The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book.

I've seen the way he dances; it looks like something you do on Saint Walpurgis Night.

Es una lástima que el brillo de los ojos de una persona solo sea el brillo de los ojos de una persona, y que uno no pueda descifrar con una sola mirada qué lo produce.

The first thing a principle does is to kill somebody. --Gaudy Night

My idea is that Miss Vane didn't do it, said Wimsey. I dare say that's an idea which has already occurred to you, but with the weight of my great mind behind it, no doubt is strikes the imagination more forcibly.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was. No, said the old man, that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.

All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.

In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at least know the answer when you were dead.

The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.

The chances of finding out what's really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.

There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate!

The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely small.

Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened.

The Book: Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, 'Oh no, not again.' Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly *why* the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.

After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.