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Wells Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers
- 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…
- 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…
- Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The…
- I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very…
- 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,…
- 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…
- He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the…
- 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…
- 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…
- Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
- 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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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong