Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

by Dorothy L. Sayers

Even idiots occasionally speak the truth accidentally.

there’s nothin’ like Christian feelin’s for upsettin’ a man’s domestic comfort.

It’s much easier to work on someone else’s job than one’s own—gives one that delightful feelin’ of interferin’ and bossin’ about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin’ all one’s own work off one’s hands.

I always think that the franker you are with people, the more you’re likely to deceive ’em; so unused is the modern world to the open hand and the guileless heart,

I often think when a man’s once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.”