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

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey Love Poetry

It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Dreams Lord Peter Wimsey

I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -- not too strenuous, not too sedentary; trains and invigorates the mind.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Detection Inquisitiveness Intelligence Introspection Lord Peter Wimsey Mental Health Sleuths Suicide

And upon his return, Gherkins, who had always considered his uncle as a very top-hatted sort of person, actually saw him take from his handkerchief-drawer an undeniable automatic pistol.It was at this point that Lord Peter was apotheosed from the state of Quite Decent Uncle to that of Glorified Uncle

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Children Guns Lord Peter Wimsey

I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Lord Peter Lord Peter Wimsey Memory

The Lord has made us to be creative, and the sense of achievement will help to lift our spirits.

~ Shirley Corder

Shirley Corder Achievement Creative Inspirational Lord Peter Wimsey

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

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Laughter Lord Peter Wimsey Love

Lord Peter's library was one of the most delightful bachelor rooms in London. Its scheme was black and primrose; its walls were lined with rare editions, and its chairs and Chesterfield sofa suggested the embraces of the houris. In one corner stood a black baby grand, a wood fire leaped on a wide old-fashioned hearth, and the Sèvres vases on the chimneypiece were filled with ruddy and gold chrysanthemums. To the eyes of the young man who was ushered in from the raw November fog it seemed not only rare and unattainable, but friendly and familiar, like a colourful and gilded paradise in a mediæval painting

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Library Lord Peter Wimsey

Lord Peter Wimsey: Facts, Bunter, must have facts. When I was a small boy, I always hated facts. Thought they were nasty, hard things, all nobs. Mervyn Bunter: Yes, my lord. My old mother always used to say... Lord Peter Wimsey: Your mother, Bunter? Oh, I never knew you had one. I always thought you just sort of came along already-made, so it were. Oh, excuse me. How infernally rude of me. Beg pardon, I'm sure. Mervyn Bunter: That's all right, my lord. Lord Peter Wimsey: Thank you. Mervyn Bunter: Yes indeed, I was one of seven. Lord Peter Wimsey: That is pure invention, Bunter, I know better. You are unique. But you were going to tell me about your mater. Mervyn Bunter: Oh yes, my lord. My old mother always used to say that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, and they generally run away. Lord Peter Wimsey: By Jove, that's courageous, Bunter. What a splendid person she must be. Mervyn Bunter: I think so, my lord.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Facts Humor Lord Peter Wimsey
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