Wimsey Quotes
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Thank God!' said Wimsey. 'Where there is a church, there is civilisation.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Everywhere you travel to, be fully there.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Lord Peter Wimsey stretched himself luxuriously between the sheets provided by the Hotel Meurice.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
— Frank Herbert
Do you know how to pick a lock?"
"Not in the least, I'm afraid."
"I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey. — Dorothy L. Sayers
"Not in the least, I'm afraid."
"I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey. — Dorothy L. Sayers
But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Like all male creatures Wimsey was a simple soul at bottom.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Nobody minds coarseness, but one must draw the line at cruelty
-Lord Peter Wimsey — Dorothy L. Sayers
-Lord Peter Wimsey — Dorothy L. Sayers
I say - I don't mind betting this is the most popular thing Campbell ever did. Nothing in life became him like the leaving of it, eh, what?
— Dorothy L. Sayers
The Lord has made us to be creative, and the sense of achievement will help to lift our spirits.
— Shirley Corder
We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European.
— Jack Charlton
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
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant. — Dorothy L. Sayers
She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.
— Bill De Blasio
Reading was my way of not thinking about maths. More than that (or do I mean less?), it was my way of not thinking.
— Ian McEwan
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
— Leo Strauss
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
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever we kill, we kill a part of ourselves.
— Christopher Paolini
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
jealousy was in a whole category by itself. One that sat right between instability and insecurity.
— Darynda Jones
I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.
— Taylor Swift
We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
— Dorothy L. Sayers