Bookish Matters

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

—Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Imagine how some unfortunate master criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the week there, but Hercule Poirot, as well.

—P.G. Wodehouse, from The Code of the Woosters

1 comment:

  1. HAHA SO GOOD. Man, would that be terrifying! I can just imagine old Poirot and Holmes scoffing at each other's methods and eccentricities, the arrogant sods. But oh the immense collective power of their little grey cells...

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