“Lord Peter Wimsey: Everybody suspects an eager desire to curry favour, but rudeness, for some reason, is always accepted as a guarantee of good faith. The only man who ever managed to see through rudeness was Saint Augustine.”

“Lord Peter Wimsey: Trouble shared is trouble halved.”

“Lord Peter Wimsey: The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.”

“Lord Peter Wimsey: The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it – that is at the bottom of the ψευδῆ λέγειν ὡς δεῖ.”

“Lord Peter Wimsey: I always said the professional advocate was the most amoral person on the face of the earth. I'm certain of it now.”

“Lord Peter Wimsey: Wherever trouble turns up, there am I at the bottom of it.”

“Lord Peter Wimsey: He dogs my footsteps with the incompetent zeal of fifty Watsons.”

“Lord Peter Wimsey: The first thing a principle does — if it really is a principle — is to kill somebody.”

“Lord Peter Wimsey: Wait a second… I'm not sure that you haven't said something useful and important.
Lady Mary Wimsey: Everything I say is useful and important.”

“There is no way to hold your own in a relationship and simultaneously accept rude behavior.”