Crooked Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers Download Open image “He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.” — Dorothy L. Sayers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crooked Pins Safety Safety pins Sarcastic Spine Used
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck… — John Hiatt Copy Share Image
Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
No matter how sturdy, erudite or judicious you may be; you can never straighten out what is crooked; neither can you count things that… — Samuel Kermis Copy Share Image
The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way? — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
“The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“ Peter! Were you looking for a horse-shoe?" "No; I was expecting the horse, but the shoe is a piece of pure, gorgeous luck."… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
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… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood had changed since the early… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Hey Sydney," she said, giving me a small, crooked smile as she entered the room. Her flashing, dark eyes were friendly, but they were… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I have crooked toes from wearing boots that didn't fit me because that's all I could afford as a kid. — Jonah Lomu Copy Share Image
When I meet a new person, something has to be a little off for me to consider them beautiful. It could be crooked teeth,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair,… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase.” — Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball Copy Share Image
I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked. — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
“CLOV [sadly] No one that ever lived ever thought so crooked as we.” — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
![“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c74/dorothy-l-sayers-738_academia_see-that-the-mind-is-honest-first-the-re_16293.jpg)
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