Lord Peter Wimsey

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey DSO (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh). A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. He is often assisted by his valet and former batman, Mervyn Bunter; by his good friend and later brother-in-law, police detective Charles Parker; and, in a few books, by Harriet Vane, who becomes his wife.

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"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!" King Lear (Edmund) Act I, scene ii

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood” Henry VIII, Act 1, Scene 1

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"How well he's read, to reason against reading!" Love's Labour's Lost, Act 1, Scene1

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

“Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.” The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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