Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes and Sayings
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A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
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A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
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As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
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I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
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I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
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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 learn by experience.
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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
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She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
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Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
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Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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Very dangerous things, theories.
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While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
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