Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

“Bunter came with me in the role of a friend. A role he has always played to perfection." "It does not require dissimulation, my…

— Jill Paton Walsh

“The Frenchman sat up with that strange energy which comes often as the harbinger of death. "(...) This I tell you - I, Raoul…

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“And believe me, the Catholic Church has much to thank Dante for. His Inferno terrified the faithful for centuries, and no doubt tripled church…

— Dan Brown

“He looked in disgust at the piles of sandbags surrounding peter the great's statue. He wanted to tear them off and let the "bronze…

— John Verlin Love

Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul.…

— Stephen Fry

“He had a charm about him sometimes, a warmth that was irresistible, like sunshine. He planted Saffy triumphantly on the pavement, opened the taxi…

— Hilary McKay

“Peter didn't answer. He pulled his legs up to his chest, wrapped his arms around them, and put his chin on his knees. Ever…

— Brom

“I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce and then to abandon them, until he…

— Alice Miller

“All these things were shaken about within Peter Lake like pots and pans banging against the side of a peddler's swaybacked horse. It was…

— Mark Helprin

“When the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerers and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns, their laurels,…

— Virginia Woolf

“The things we take for granted. The things we never feel we’ll lose. Not missing the water until the well runs dry, and hundreds…

— Vee Hoffman

“There is a fearful moment of reckoning before us should it ever chance that when all our trees shall have been sacrificed on the…

— Adeline Knapp