« All Him Quotes · Dorothy L. Sayers's Page
Him Quotes by 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.
- What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he…
- To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he…
- 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…
- Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to…
- 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…
- [N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden