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Dorothy L. Sayers quotes

British Author June 13, 1893 – December 17, 1957

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The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "A marriage of two independent and equally irritable..."
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity. Dorothy L. Sayers
How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant. Dorothy L. Sayers
See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort. Dorothy L. Sayers
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If..."
Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death! Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an..."
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. Dorothy L. Sayers
The banks of the Thirty-Foot held, but the swollen Wale, receiving the full force of the Upper Waters and the spring tide, gave at every point. Before the cars reached St. Paul, the flood was rising and pursuing them. Wimsey's car--the last to start--was submerged to the axles. They fled through the dusk, and behind and on their left, the great silver sheet of water spread and spread. Dorothy L. Sayers
I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether. Dorothy L. Sayers
For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have. Dorothy L. Sayers
I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job. Dorothy L. Sayers
And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime. Dorothy L. Sayers
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid. Dorothy L. Sayers
Here am I, sweating my brains out to introduce a really sensational incident into your dull and disreputable little police investigation, and you refuse to show a single spark of enthusiasm. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "It's not the innocent young things that need gentle..."
It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt. Dorothy L. Sayers

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