Best Dorothy L. Sayers Sayings
- The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. Advantage
- A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own. Any
- 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. All
- There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited. Inspirational
- 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… Behind
- A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. Absence
- But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of… All
- Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The… Better
- 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… Account
- . . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's… All
- 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… Anybody
- Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with… Abandoned
- To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet… Apples
- A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. Human
- I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one… All
- We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us. Funny
- this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil… Devil
- What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains? Both
- 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… Break
- 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… Concluded
- He was being about as protective as a can-opener. Inspirational
- All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons,… Absolute
- She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight. Both
- 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
- How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. All
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