Quotes From "Strong Poison" By Dorothy L. Sayers

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper Dorothy L. Sayers

Don't be so damned discouraging, " said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me."" People have been wrongly condemned before now."" Exactly; simply because I wasn't there."" I never thought of that. Dorothy L. Sayers

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be. Dorothy L. Sayers

Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior certainty, he felt shaken." My dear man, where's the flaw in [this case]?"" There isn't one ... There's nothing wrong about it at all, except that the girl's innocent. Dorothy L. Sayers

Do you know how to pick a lock?"" Not in the least, I'm afraid."" I often wonder what we go to school for, " said Wimsey. Dorothy L. Sayers

Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers learn it now at their mother's knee. Dorothy L. Sayers

(One character on another:)" Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face? Dorothy L. Sayers

There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath. Dorothy L. Sayers

Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize. Dorothy L. Sayers

Why would you family think about it?"" Oh, my mother's the only one that counts, and she likes you very much from what she's seen of you."" So you had me inspected?"" No-dash ti all, I seem to be saying all the wrong things today. I was absolutely stunned that first day in court, and I rushed off to my mater, who's an absolute dear, and the kind of person who really understands things, and I said, 'Look here! here's the absolutely one and only woman, and she's being put through a simply ghastly awful business and for God's sake come and hold my hand! ' You simply don't know how foul it was. Dorothy L. Sayers