The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)

by Dorothy L. Sayers

I was born looking foolish and every day in every way I am getting foolisher and foolisher.

You’re not free when you have to tell lies to escape. It’s not worth it.

‘It reminds me of what the good lady said about Hamlet – that it was all quotations.’

‘G. K. Chesterton says,’ put in Wimsey, ‘that most people with a very well-defined style write at times what looks like bad parodies of themselves.