Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

by Dorothy L. Sayers

“There are many difficulties inherent in a teleological view of creation,”

‘My dear child, you can give it a long name if you like, but I’m an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it’s so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.’

“Quite right,” said Peter, “when I hear people movin’ about the house at night, I’m much too delicate-minded to think anything at all.” “Of course,” interposed the Duchess, “particularly in England, where it is so oddly improper to think.

“Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.”