“Lord Peter Wimsey: It’s my belief most of us would only be too pleased to chuck these community hysterics if the beastly newspapers didn’t run it for all it’s worth. However, it won’t do to say so. (on Remembrance Day observances)”
The Unpleasantness at The Bellona Club (1928)
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English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian wr… 1893–1957Related quotes
“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)
“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)
“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)