Top 28 Peter Wimsey Quotes

#1. The problem with opportunity cost is that opportunity cost is divided among many, many things.

Dan Ariely

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

#3. I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit
not too strenuous, not too sedentary; trains and invigorates the mind.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#4. I'm scared to fall in love, afraid to love so fast, cuz everytime I fall in love, it seems to never last.

Janet Jackson

#5. Make sure with the time that you have, you really make an impact on people.

Jackson Guthy

#6. We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#7. The Lord has made us to be creative, and the sense of achievement will help to lift our spirits.

Shirley Corder

#8. I'm kind of bipolar in my acting choices because I just want to do a little bit of everything.

Miley Cyrus

#9. His [Lord Peter's] long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#10. I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#11. Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.

John Olver

#12. I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats ... I want audiences to be transported.

Peter Jackson

#13. I get it that some people just don't know what to make of me.

Hillary Clinton

#14. Lord Peter Wimsey stretched himself luxuriously between the sheets provided by the Hotel Meurice.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#15. Nobody minds coarseness, but one must draw the line at cruelty


-Lord Peter Wimsey

Dorothy L. Sayers

#16. She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#17. ...and opened his mouth to speak in that precise drawl which is the trademark of the overly educated upper class english gentleman. A high voice: A biting one: definitely an eccentric.

Laurie R. King

#18. We know
The wheel of time moves on
New bonds, new ties ignite
Moments fleet, memories drift, shadows glide
There is always a hope
At the horizon we seek.

Balroop Singh

#19. And you, Mary, if you must run off to London, why do it in that unfinished manner, so that I was left without the car, and couldn't catch anything until the midnight train at Northallerton? It's so much better to do things neatly and properly, even stupid things.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#20. I say - I don't mind betting this is the most popular thing Campbell ever did. Nothing in life became him like the leaving of it, eh, what?

Dorothy L. Sayers

#21. God does not DEMAND
What He does not COMMAND
One these last DAYS
Do what God SAYS ...

Israelmore Ayivor

#22. They came in search of the hot stuff, just like any man calling on a tart.

Salman Rushdie

#23. Every success in anything we should refer to the Lord and with the Prophet say: 'Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory' (Ps. 113:9).

Seraphim Of Sarov

#24. Funny thing about straddling fences, though: eventually you end up with a pain in the butt and not much ground covered in any direction.

Logan Wolfram

#25. Bunter came with me in the role of a friend. A role he has always played to perfection."
"It does not require dissimulation, my lord," said Bunter.
"Thank you," said Peter.

Jill Paton Walsh

#26. Gain ten pounds and they put you in Solitary.

Margaret Atwood

#27. For all of us who lived in Paris; we will never forget it because Paris is a moveable feast

Ernest Hemingway,

#28. How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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