Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes - Page 7

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• Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me." "People have been wrongly condemned before now." "Exactly; simply because I wasn't there." "I never thought of that.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Thinking, People, Said

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• Very dangerous things, theories.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Theory, Dangerous, Dangerous Things

  The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Chapter 4

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• A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mean, Clarity, Plain English

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• The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Have His Carcase”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Way, Murder, Born

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• Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Song, Heaven, Bed

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• That there is a secret itself is a secret.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Secret

  Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh (1999). “Thrones, Dominations”, p.145, Macmillan

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• Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Interesting, Personality, Individuality

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• For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Giving, Hazards, Sake

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.392, Open Road Media

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• Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Devil, World, Devoted

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

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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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Running, Looks, Cows

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.327, Open Road Media

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• There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learned nothing-perhaps in particular if we learned nothing-our contribution to the discussion may have a potential value.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Teacher, Taught, Reason Why

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2006). “The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement: On Dante and Other Writers”, p.155, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Believe, Understanding, Training

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Have His Carcase”, p.351, Open Road Media

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• There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Way

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “The Documents in the Case”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Nuisance, Made, Relation

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.410, Open Road Media

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• 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 of the obvious.

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  Sight, Pioneers, Movement

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• She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse.

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  Crush, Horse, Hero

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Have His Carcase”, p.271, Open Road Media

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• We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Importance, Knows

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Nine Tailors”, p.447, Open Road Media

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• Advertise, or go under.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Advertising

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Murder Must Advertise”, p.414, Open Road Media

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• Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person." "That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said." "All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it." "But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.

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  Emotional, Games, Play

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• Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

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  Essence, Burlesque

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “Gaudy Night: Lord Peter Wimsey”, p.333, Hachette UK

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• But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain?" "You can usually tell," said Miss de Vine, "by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mistake, Fall, Heart

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• there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Luck, Fortune, Irritating

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• Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Believe, Boys, Men

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.

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  Mean, Fancy, Attractive

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.55, Open Road Media

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