Lord Peter Wimsey
1987 (TV)
(Thinking about Harriet Vane) Lord Peter Wimsey: She has a sense of humor... and brains... life wouldn't be dull. One would wake up, and there would be a whole day full of jolly things to do. And then we would come home and go to bed... and that would be jolly too.
Harriet Vane: Have I got this right? You are proposing marriage to me? Lord Peter Wimsey: I don't positively repel you or anything like that, do I?
Harriet Vane: Being a writer of detective fiction, I have naturally studied your career with interest. Lord Peter Wimsey: Well, that's good, because then you'll understand that I'm not such an ass as I'm appearing at present.
Harriet Vane: If anybody does marry you, Peter, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle.
Harriet Vane: Peter, people have been wrongly condemned before. Lord Peter Wimsey: Only because I wasn't there. Harriet Vane: Oh, I never thought of that.
Bill Rumm: We all are like sheep who have gone astray, and well I may say so, for I was a dark and wicked sinner myself, until this here gentleman laid his hand upon me as I was a-bustin' of his safe, and became God's instrument for turning me away from the path that leadeth to destruction.
Chief Inspector Charles Parker: (writing a note) "Boyes - query arsenic." Anything else? Lord Peter Wimsey: Yes. Find out if Boyes visited any pub, in the neighbourhood of Doughty Street between 9: 50 and 10: 10 on the night of January 20th, if he met anybody, and what he took to drink. Chief Inspector Charles Parker: (keeps writing) "Boyes - query pub." Lord Peter Wimsey: And thirdly, find out if any bottle or paper that might have contained arsenic was picked up in that district. Chief Inspector Charles Parker: Oh, is that all? Well, perhaps you'd also like me to trace the bus ticket dropped by Mrs Brown outside Selfridge's in the last Christmas rush?
Lord Peter Wimsey: Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go see a man about a dog - or I should say, a parson about his son.