Best Dorothy L. Sayers Words
- But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds. All
- Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be. Murder
- I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look how popular are… Bloke
- Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to… All
- Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But… Abject
- Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to… All
- Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think… Anybody
- But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues Entertaining
- 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… All
- We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world. Break
- She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra. Besotted
- The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work,… Acquisition
- It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced… Always Something
- What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person. Class
- You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word… All
- Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper Faint
- If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace. Grace
- I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had… All
- I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have… Altogether
- What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did… Abolish
- 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! Death
- Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective… All
- There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood. Bench
- It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt. Been
- People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. Believe
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