The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Quotes

“Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“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.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“Yes, and look at the corpses. Place always reminds me of that old thing in Punch, you know—‘Waiter, take away Lord Whatsisname, he’s been dead two days.’ Look at Old Ormsby there, snoring”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“Aristotle, chiefly,” replied Wimsey. “He says, you know, that one should always prefer the probable impossible to the improbable possible.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“I have a peculiar instinct about pubs. I can find one blindfold in a pea-souper with both hands tied behind me.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“What in the world, Wimsey, are you doing in this Morgue?” demanded Captain Fentiman, flinging aside the Evening Banner with the air of a man released from an irksome duty.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“It’s the self-defence of the first-class mind against the superior person,”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“I'm never serious. That's what my friends dislike about me.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“Yes, I know. The moment I found she preferred burgundy to champagne I had the highest opinion of her.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“By that time we shall, I hope, be moving in different circles. I shall be in the one devoted to murderers, and you in the much lower and hotter one devoted to those who tempt others to murder them.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“We’ve no quarrel with the Church, you know, if she’ll stick to her business and leave us to ours.” “My dear man, if you can cure sin with an injection, I shall be only too pleased.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“Exactly. He is the Most Unlikely Person, and that is why Sherlock Holmes would suspect him at once.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“I’m determined never to be a parent. Modern manners and the break-up of the fine old traditions have simply ruined the business. I shall devote my life and fortune to the endowment of research on the best method of producin’ human beings decorously and unobtrusively from eggs. All parental responsibility to devolve upon the incubator.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“That’s better,’ said Wimsey. ‘Napoleon or somebody said that you could always turn a tragedy into a comedy by sittin’ down.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“I haven’t time and I don’t want the money. Why should I? I’m not a dean or an actress.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“Wetheridge said he had been chased all over the Club that morning by an infernal photographer fellow, and that one got no peace these days with all this confounded publicity. Wimsey said it was all done for advertisement, and that advertisement was the curse of the age. Look at the papers – nothing but advertisements from cover to cover. Wetheridge said that in his time, by gad, a respectable Club would have scorned advertisements, and that he could remember the time when newspapers were run by gentlemen for gentlemen. Wimsey said that nothing was what it had been; he thought it must be due to the War.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club