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.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

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

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

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