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All Quotes by 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 -…
- There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins…
- Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight…
- I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.
- Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something…
- I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- . . . 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…
- 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 the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons,…
- How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
- She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not…
- The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The…
- The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false…
- For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We…
- But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho…
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