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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4) QUOTES

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4) QUOTES

1 " Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4)

2 " I have a peculiar instinct about pubs. I can find one blindfold in a pea-souper with both hands tied behind me. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4)

3 " Exactly. He is the Most Unlikely Person, and that is why Sherlock Holmes would suspect him at once. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4)

4 " I’m determined never to be a parent. Modern manners and the break-up of the fine old traditions have simply ruined the business. I shall devote my life and fortune to the endowment of research on the best method of producin’ human beings decorously and unobtrusively from eggs. All parental responsibility to devolve upon the incubator. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4)

5 " Yes, and look at the corpses. Place always reminds me of that old thing in Punch, you know—‘Waiter, take away Lord Whatsisname, he’s been dead two days.’ Look at Old Ormsby there, snoring "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4)

6 " Books, you know, Charles, are like lobster-shells. We surround ourselves with ’em, and then we grow out of ’em and leave ’em behind, as evidences of our earlier stages of development. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4)

7 " this plain, sulky, inarticulate girl, who had never had any "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4)

8 " WHAT IN THE WORLD, Wimsey, are you doing in this Morgue?” demanded Captain Fentiman, flinging aside the Evening Banner with the air of a man released from an irksome duty. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4)

9 " Wetheridge said he had been chased all over the Club that morning by an infernal photographer fellow, and that one got no peace these days with all this confounded publicity. Wimsey said it was all done for advertisement, and that advertisement was the curse of the age. Look at the papers – nothing but advertisements from cover to cover. Wetheridge said that in his time, by gad, a respectable Club would have scorned advertisements, and that he could remember the time when newspapers were run by gentlemen for gentlemen. Wimsey said that nothing was what it had been; he thought it must be due to the War. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4)

10 " I haven’t time and I don’t want the money. Why should I? I’m not a dean or an actress. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4)

11 " We’ve no quarrel with the Church, you know, if she’ll stick to her business and leave us to ours.” “My dear man, if you can cure sin with an injection, I shall be only too pleased. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4)

12 " By that time we shall, I hope, be moving in different circles. I shall be in the one devoted to murderers, and you in the much lower and hotter one devoted to those who tempt others to murder them. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4)

13 " That’s better,’ said Wimsey. ‘Napoleon or somebody said that you could always turn a tragedy into a comedy by sittin’ down. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4)