Gaudy Night
1987 (TV)
(Wimsey and Bunter present their papers to the German border policeman) Border policeman: Ah! An Englischer aristokrat. Lord Peter Wimsey: Put like that, it sounds like an insult. Border policeman: In Germany, it is the people who rule. Lord Peter Wimsey: I see from the paper that there will be elections soon? Border policeman: Ja, it is likely. Lord Peter Wimsey: Chancellor Bruning's emergency powers will be short-lived? Border policeman: You are interested in our domestic politics? Lord Peter Wimsey: If no man is an island, then assuredly no country can be. Border policeman: Except yours, Lord Wimsey.
(Harriet calls Peter to talk at a restaurant with a dance hall) Lord Peter Wimsey: Tell me, what's the matter? Harriet Vane: I'm not sure I should. Lord Peter Wimsey: Tell me or tango. Harriet Vane: You know I can't tango! Lord Peter Wimsey: You've no choice then, have you?
Miss Burrows: Excuse my saying so, Miss Vane, but given your own terrible experience, I wonder that you should still decide to write the sort of books you do. Harriet Vane: You're saying that anyone with proper feelings would rather scrub floors for a living? Well, I should scrub floors very badly, and I write mysteries rather well.
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