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People Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers
- The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man;…
- Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
- None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have…
- 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…
- What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
- I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you…
- 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…
- Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
- If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social…
- There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go…
- Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
- [T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is…
- 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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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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