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I hope you won't mind, because I haven't shaved since this morning, but I'm going to take you round the next quiet corner and kiss you.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
A man was taken to the Zoo and shown the giraffe. After gazing at it a little in silence: 'I don't believe it,' he said.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle
— Dorothy L. Sayers
There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular)
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
To mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Thank God!' said Wimsey. 'Where there is a church, there is civilisation.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
— J.K. Rowling
Don't let the smallest chance slip by; you never know until you try
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Advertise, or go under.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?
— Dorothy L. Sayers
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Pray silence for the soloist. But let him be soon over, that we may hear the great striding fugue again.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
The glass-blower's cat is bompstable, said Mr. Parker aloud and distinctly.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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
Those who make some other person their job ... are dangerous.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Jerrykins, or Pickled Gherkins. Lord Peter was not one of those born uncles who delight old nurses by their
— Dorothy L. Sayers
I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
But the worse you express yourself these days the more profound people think youthough that's nothing new. — Dorothy L. Sayers
The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.
— 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
There's something hypnotic about the word tea.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Even if it is the twilight of the world, before night falls I will sleep in your arms.' ...
— Dorothy L. Sayers
He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed a kind of amiable absurdity. — Dorothy L. Sayers
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
His lordship is in the enjoyment of very low spirits, owing to his inexplicable inability to bend Providence to his own designs.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
But we can never hope for a whole jury-box full of ecclesiastical diehards.
— 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
No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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
All conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
honestly--then dishonestly.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
(One character on anotherDon't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face? — Dorothy L. Sayers
The autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
That there is a secret itself is a secret.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Still, it doesn't do to murder people, however offensive they may be.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Very dangerous things, theories.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
— Dorothy L. Sayers
A person who can believe all the articles of the Christian faith is not going to boggle over a trifle of adverse evidence.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
The first thing a principle does is kill somebody
— Dorothy L. Sayers
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
I took the liberty of ascertaining as much beforehand, my lord.""Of course you did, Bunter. You always ascertain everything. — Dorothy L. Sayers
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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
In detective stories virtue is always triumphant. They're the purest literature we have
— Dorothy L. Sayers
The only Christian work is good work well done.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
On the strength of his literary output alone ... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you- I am at rest with you- I have come home.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Let the galled jade wince' -
— Dorothy L. Sayers
The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Plain lies are dangerous.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
In every age, art holds up to us the standard pattern of exemplary conduct, and real life does its best to conform.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handlingit's the ones that have been frightened and hurt. — Dorothy L. Sayers
I didn't mind thinking you were a murderer," said Lady Mary spitefully, "but I do mind you being such an ass.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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
Something was jigging and worrying in his brain; it felt like a hive of bees, stirred up by a stick.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
