Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

by Dorothy L. Sayers

" "She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

It's so much better to do things neatly and thoroughly--even stupid things.

"It is like the taste of a passion that has passed its noon and turned to weariness," he said, with sudden gravity. "The only thing to do is to recognise bravely that it is dead, and put it away."

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