Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes - Page 5

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• There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Law, May

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Honesty, May, Sake

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• What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Work, Important, Profession

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2014). “The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright”, p.222, St. Martin's Press

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• In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jobs, Work, Men

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• 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

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• To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he is distressed to find that the more means he can dispose of-such as machine-power, rapid transport, and general civilized amenities, the more his problems grow in hardness and complexity....Perhaps the first thing he can learn form the artists is that the only way of 'mastering' one's material is to abandon the whole conception of mastery and to co-operate with it in love: whosoever will be a lord of life, let him be its servant.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Love, Mean, Men

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• Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  School, Locks, Wonder

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.166, Open Road Media

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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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Evil, World, Patterns

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• How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, People

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “The Documents in the Case”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Hearing, Pleasure, Ifs

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.147, Open Road Media

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• What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Morning, Blessed, Food

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.275, Open Road Media

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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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Law, Littles, Mystery

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.317, Open Road Media

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• I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mean, Law, People

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Unnatural Death”, p.167, Open Road Media

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• To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Integrity, Artist, Depth

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• 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

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• There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mean, Difficulty, Human Experience

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.158, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Money, Men, People

  "The Other Six Deadly Sins" by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1941.

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• The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Sex, Men, Opposites

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• It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.

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  Powerful, Emotional, Play

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• It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Valentines Day, Valentine's Day, Valentine Love

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.506, Open Road Media

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• Placetne, magistra?" "Placet.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Gaudy Night (1935) ch. 23 (Lord Peter Wimsey's marriage proposal to Harriet Vane, and her acceptance)

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• Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Forgiveness, Sin

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Five Red Herrings”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Past, Men, Thinking

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Whose Body?”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Marriage, Independent, Two

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.583, Open Road Media

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• ... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Artistic, Found, Theological

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2011). “The Man Born to Be King: A Play-cycle on the Life of Our Loard and Saviour Jesus Christ”, p.37, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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