Lord Peter Wimsey Quotes:

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

source: Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.83, Open Road Media

topic: Memories, Doe, Gone, Lord Peter Wimsey

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

source: Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.354, Open Road Media

topic: Taken, Firsts, Poet, Lord Peter Wimsey

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

- Dorothy L. Sayers

source: Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.290, Open Road Media

topic: Heart, Laughing, World, Lord Peter Wimsey

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

- Dorothy L. Sayers

source: Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.334, Open Road Media

topic: Issues, Labyrinth, World, Lord Peter Wimsey

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

- Dorothy L. Sayers

source: "Busman's Honeymoon".

topic: Laughter, Peter, Ifs, Lord Peter Wimsey

It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?

- Dorothy L. Sayers

topic: Dream, Real, Wish, Lord Peter Wimsey, Awfulness