The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey #5)

by Dorothy L. Sayers

one gets a general idea.” “Oh, yes. Only you have to check up your ideas by other things—facts, and so on. You can’t just theorise.”

a continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven’t got any of your own.”

It is this incompatibility of outlook between the medical and the lay mind which involves counsel and medical witnesses in a fog of misunderstanding and mutual irritation.

Books, you know, Charles, are like lobster-shells. We surround ourselves with ’em, and then we grow out of ’em and leave ’em behind, as evidences of our earlier stages of development.”

you could always turn a tragedy into a comedy by sittin’ down.

blackmail is even longer and more expensive than babies.

The moment I found she preferred burgundy to champagne I had the highest opinion of her.”