Quotes About Dorothy

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree." The odd phrase stayed with Chancellor, through Pinega and beyond

You're indecent.' Tobie dragged down his shirt. 'It reflects my state of mind,' he said.

He has the exact Crawford colouring.' 'Egg mimicry,' said Lymond.

I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

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?

I assure your lordship that for the first time in my existence I regret that I have made no practical study of campanology. I am always so delighted to find that there are things you cannot do.

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.