Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes - Page 6

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• There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Outlook, Prove, Ifs

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Whose Body?”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Double Bass, Sculpture, Baggage

  DOROTHY L. SAYERS (1956). “Clouds of Witness AND The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club”

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• [W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Use, Rotten

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• Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Rain, Fire, Hot

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Success, Heart, Envy

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

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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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Race, Mind, Amusement

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• What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Church, Demand, Tables

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• We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Work, Mean, Profound

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2014). “The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright”, p.248, St. Martin's Press

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• Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and the nature of an and the ultimate nature of the universe; it is a war of dogma.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Christian, Religious, War

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• He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Uncles, Heart, Men

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.316, Open Road Media

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• Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Sex, Disappointment, Spots

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• I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Care, Bones, Sin

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Mind, Ironic

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.476, Open Road Media

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• Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jobs, Danger, Dangerous

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• The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Book, Writing, Impossible

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• There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Community, Way, Facts

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• Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Philosophy, Food, Emotional

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “The Documents in the Case”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• Advertising never sold a bad product twice.

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  Advertising, Products

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• 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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• I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Regret, Food, Eggs

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

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  Political, Original Thought, Originality

  "Gaudy Night". Book by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1936.

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• And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with his daily life and thought.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Expression, Average

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• Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the Ego, so that the child who has fantasied himself a murderer ends by becoming a Loeb or a Leopold. The creative Imagination works outwards, steadily increasing the gap between the visioned and the actual, till this becomes the great gulf fixed between art and nature. Few writers of crime-stories become murderers--if any do, it is not the result of identifying themselves with their murderous heroes.

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  Art, Children, Hero

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2015). “The Mind of the Maker”, p.93, Open Road Media

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• Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Drunk, Sober, Easy

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.393, Open Road Media

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• All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mother, Children, Book

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Nine Tailors”, p.464, Open Road Media

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