Good quotes from lesser known Golden Age mysteries

[cimorene]

• "What we believe is going to butter no parsnips"
  



• “In the words of a forgotten novelist, sir, I have the patience of innumerable asses"
  



• "You are in process of making a very tidy-sized fool of yourself.”
  

-Fire in the Thatch by ECR Lorac


• “If you’re going to murder people, you’ve got to put all grim thoughts out of your head, because what you’ve done is grimmer than anything else the world can show.”
  


-Murder by Matchlight by ECR Lorac


• clever as paint
  

-Death in Fancy Dress by Anthony Gilbert


• To Mr Todhunter’s increasing discomfiture, Mr Bairns was pulling another cat down from the ceiling.
  

-Trial and Error by Anthony Berkeley


• He must go home and have influenza. Otherwise he will cause suspicion by his woebegone air.
  

-The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson


• The problem fascinated him, since every possible solution presented apparently insuperable difficulties.
  

-Death in the Tunnel by Miles Burton


• "In the meantime consider it your pigeon [...]. You started the hare and it’s for you to follow it up.”
  

-The Lake District Murder by John Bude