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Words 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 -…
- Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining…
- But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose…
- Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.
- 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…
- 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…
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