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Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11) QUOTES

Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11) QUOTES

1 " But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

2 " She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

3 " For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

4 " in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

5 " Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

6 " My husband would do anything for me ...' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another."

"It's a very real power, Harriet."

"Then ... we won't use it. If we disagree, we'll fight it out like gentlemen. We won't stand for matrimonial blackmail. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

7 " Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

8 " Experience has taught me," said Peter (...) "that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he should have procured The Times this morning by the simple expedient of asking the milkman to request the postmistress to telephone to Broxford and have it handed to the 'bus-conductor to be dropped at the post-office and brought up by the little girl who delivers the telegrams is a trifling example of his resourceful energy. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

9 " How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

10 " his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

11 " We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

12 " And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you- I am at rest with you- I have come home. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

13 " She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

14 " He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

15 " I like to crawl away and hide in a corner."
"Well," he said, with a transitory gleam of himself, "you're my corner and I've come to hide. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

16 " Even if it is the twilight of the world, before night falls I will sleep in your arms.’ . . . "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

17 " I've hated almost everything that ever happened to me, but I knew all the time it was just things that were wrong, not everything. Even when I felt most awful I never thought of killing myself or wanting to die - only of somehow getting out of the mess and starting again. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

18 " It has been said, by myself and others, that a love-interest is only an intrusion upon a detective story. But to the characters involved, the detective-interest might well seem an irritating intrusion upon their love-story. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

19 " 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. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

20 " What was that you called me?’ ‘Oh, Peter – how absurd! I wasn’t thinking.’ ‘What did you call me?’ ‘My lord!’ ‘The last two words in the language I ever expected to get a kick out of. One never values a thing till one’s earned it, does one? Listen, heart’s lady – before I’ve done I mean to be king and emperor. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)