Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Passion, Ducks, Fleeting

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “Gaudy Night: Lord Peter Wimsey”, p.262, Hachette UK

• The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Tattoo, Sexy, Passion

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.587, Open Road Media

• A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Passion, Atmosphere, Trying

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club”, p.119, Open Road Media

• The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Passion, Devil, Looks

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2006). “The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement: On Dante and Other Writers”, p.231, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Running, Horse, Stupid

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.513, Open Road Media

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