cimorene

'It’s no good letting this wretched drowning get you down, though, you know.'

- The Crozier Pharaohs

'[Y]our guess is as good as mine.’

‘I don’t believe that’s true.’

‘How right you probably are.'

- The Death-Cap Dancers

‘I beg your pardon,’ said Clun, displaying no sign of repentance, ‘but I do have a prejudice in favour of saying what I mean. It was wrong of me to expect that such a prejudice would extend itself to my friends.’

- The Twenty-Third Man

'Altruism, as such, is not a feature of my character.'

'Thank heaven for that! If there's anybody I hate and distrust, it's an indiscriminating do-gooder, and I never did seem to see you in such a fearsome role.'

'Thank you.'

- Dance to Your Daddy

‘Poor old buster,’ said Sebastian, as he and his sister left the hotel to go for a walk. ‘He’s an awful ass, but I do feel sorry for him.'

- The Murder of Busy Lizzie