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

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues

I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had eyes in ones knees, it would be a lot more practical’… ‘What luck! Here’s a deep, damp ditch on the other side, which I shall now proceed to fall into.’ A slithering crash proclaimed that he had carried out his intention.