- Lord Peter Wimsey: [to Dr. Penberthy, who is worried about bad publicity] Newspapers are only something to wrap fish and chips.
- Mr. Murbles: Fraud is a penal offence, you could go to prison, man, and you should.
- Robert Fentiman: Don't be silly, Murbles. You're my solicitor. It's your job to keep me out.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Anyway, there are more serious penal offenses than fraud.
- Robert Fentiman: What?
- Det. Insp. Parker: Such as murder, for instance.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: [Speaking of Ann Dorland] In love?
- Marjorie Phelps: Well, she's been in love once - sort of in love. It turned out rather badly.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Mmm-hmm. Being in love usually does.
- Marjorie Phelps: Does it?
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Consequently I am rather careful to avoid it.
- Det. Insp. Parker: [after Wimsey has posiited his theories on the murder] Peter, you are absolutely scintilating with good plots today!
- Lord Peter Wimsey: [to D.I. Parker] Aristotle says we should always prefer the probable impossible to the improbable possible.