“Lord Peter Wimsey: Trouble shared is trouble halved.”
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer
The Five Red Herrings (1931)
“Here lies the peerless paper lord, Lord Peter,
Who broke the laws of God and man, and metre.”
Epitaph on Patrick ("Peter"), Lord Robertson (1845); cited from Mary Gordon "Christopher North": A Memoir of John Wilson (New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1863) p. 286.
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James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 47).
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) English poet, and peer of the realm
Written on the Bedchamber Door of Charles II, as quoted in The Book of Days : A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities (1832) by Robert Chambers, Viol. II, July 26, p. 126.
Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) Italian Dominican friar and preacher
E fu in quel tempo che io montai quassù, e dissi che io non era mandato a predicarti da uomo del mondo, né da signore alcuno, ma da colui che è signore dei signori e dalla santa Trinità. <br class="br">Sermon of 18 February 1498, as quoted in Material for a History of Pope Alexander VI, His Relatives and His Time, 5 vols. http://www.attomelani.net/?page+id=143, (1924) by Monsignor Peter de Roo, Bruges, Desclée, De Brouwer, volume 3, p. 265. https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=%22+lord+of+lords+and+by+the+holy+trinity%22&btnG=#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&tbo=1&tbm=bks&source=hp&q=%22lord+of+lords+and+by+the+holy+trinity%22&pbx=1&oq=%22lord+of+lords+and+by+the+holy+trinity%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=7992l7992l0l9097l1l1l0l0l0l0l248l248l2-1l1l0&fp=1&biw=1133&bih=590&cad=b&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb Basic searches to find frequency and page number of specific words and phrases for all five volumes http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001925194 at HathiTrust. <br class="br">Scelta di Prediche e Scritti di Fra Girolamo Savonarola, con Nuovi Documenti Intorno alla Sua Vita (Selection of Sermons and Writings of Fra Girolamo Savonarola, with New Documents concerning his Life), 1898, Pasquale Villari, E. Casanova, Firenze (Florence), G. E. Sansoni, edition, p. 288. http://books.google.com/books?id=yKpZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA288&dq=%22predicarti+da+uomo+del+mondo+n%C3%A8+da+Signore+alcuno,+ma+da+Colui+%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A9klT9b_EKypsALV3tiMAg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22ma%20da%20colui%20che%20%C3%A8%20signore%20dei%20signori%20e%20dalla%20santa%20Trinit%C3%A0%22&f=false <br class="br">Jérôme Savonarole: d'après les Documents Originaux (Girolamo Savonarola: According to the Original Documents), 1856, François Tommy Perrens, Paris, appendice, p. 352. http://books.google.com/books?id=5W02AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA352&dq=%22ma+da+colui+che+%C3%A8+signore%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=l_0lT5ijMqWJsgK5jLWMAg&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22ma%20da%20colui%20che%20%C3%A8%20signore%22&f=false
“Those who do not make God Lord of all, do not make Him Lord at all”
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(1898) Source: Separation and Service, Part II http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Separation_and_Service.
“Lord Peter Wimsey: Wherever trouble turns up, there am I at the bottom of it.”
Dorothy L. Sayers book Murder Must Advertise
Murder Must Advertise (1933)
“Lord Peter Wimsey: I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.”
Dorothy L. Sayers book Have His Carcase
Variant: Lord Peter Wimsey: A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Source: Have His Carcase (1932)
“Lord Peter Wimsey: He dogs my footsteps with the incompetent zeal of fifty Watsons.”
Dorothy L. Sayers book Murder Must Advertise
Murder Must Advertise (1933)