Quotes
Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.
Humanity was doomed, decided Singh, which made his job of hunting down individual murderers particularly pointless.
It seemed, pondered the inspector, that no sooner did you give a man a car than he wanted to drive somewhere and do something.
The universe assigned the tasks of speaking and kissing to the lips because there is never a need to do both at the same time.
p. 150
“One of the few benefits of the fall of civilization as we know it,” he says, “is that there are private cellars with fine vintages everywhere one digs. It is not theft. It is archaeology.”
p. 674
I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.
p. 20
“Isn‘t there some trouble about money?”
“They wouldn‘t be very rich, Duchess.”
“What a blessing for them! But then, perhaps, they‘d be very poor.”
“They would be rather poor.”
“Which is not a blessing.”
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
I don’t know about that. — A poet doesn't want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.
He had never done any good, but he had always carried himself like a duke, and like a duke he carried himself to the end.
Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.
When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
