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Dorothy L. Sayers quotes

British Author June 13, 1893 – December 17, 1957

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Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"So easy that, to..."
Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world."
We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find..."
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to..."
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original..."
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper"
Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper Dorothy L. Sayers
You needn't try to bully me, young man," said that octogenarian with spirit, "settin' there spoilin' your stomach with them nasty jujubes. Dorothy L. Sayers
His [Lord Peter's] long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the..."
If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground. Dorothy L. Sayers
In the terms in which you set it, the problem is unanswerable; but in the Kingdom of Heaven, those terms do not apply. You have asked the question in a form that is much too limited; the 'solution' must be brought in from outside your sphere of reference altogether. Dorothy L. Sayers
I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only..."
There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited. Dorothy L. Sayers
I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves. Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. Dorothy L. Sayers
I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all. Dorothy L. Sayers

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