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Only Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers
- The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
- Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you…
- Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead…
- There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.
- 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…
- 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…
- The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one…
- There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
- . . . 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference…
- We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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