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Dorothy L. Sayers quotes

British Author June 13, 1893 – December 17, 1957

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And you, Mary, if you must run off to London, why do it in that unfinished manner, so that I was left without the car, and couldn't catch anything until the midnight train at Northallerton? It's so much better to do things neatly and properly, even stupid things. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if..."
She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra. Dorothy L. Sayers
At twenty years of age, the old-fashioned schooling turned me out helpless, ignorant and dissatisfied. Forty years later I encounter the product of the new schooling? still more helpless, still more ignorant, and possibly not even dissatisfied. Dorothy L. Sayers
However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance? Dorothy L. Sayers
And upon his return, Gherkins, who had always considered his uncle as a very top-hatted sort of person, actually saw him take from his handkerchief-drawer an undeniable automatic pistol. It was at this point that Lord Peter was apotheosed from the state of Quite Decent Uncle to that of Glorified Uncle Dorothy L. Sayers
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die. Dorothy L. Sayers
Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. Dorothy L. Sayers
... protested Mrs. Featherstone, a lady in her thirties, whose violently compressed figure suggested that she was engaged in a perpetual struggle to compute her weight in terms of the first syllables of her name rather than the last. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will..."
If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. ..."
But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed..."
People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. Dorothy L. Sayers
I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them. Dorothy L. Sayers
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you..."
She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look..."
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. Dorothy L. Sayers

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