Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes - Page 8

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• The first thing a principle does is kill somebody

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Principles, Doe, Firsts

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• If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jesus, Taken, Heart

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• I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Dream, Night, Garden

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• She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Laughter, Peter, Ifs

  "Busman's Honeymoon".

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• There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Blood, Rose, Benches

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Taken, Firsts, Poet

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.354, Open Road Media

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• On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Night, Pounds, Decline

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• Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Heart, Paper, Oh Well

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Law, Crime

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Lord Peter Views the Body”, p.102, Open Road Media

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• To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mind, Mathematics, Invention

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• No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. 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

  Men, People, Victim

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• To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Self, Dust, Sea

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.541, Open Road Media

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• [Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Emotion, Sincere, Clauses

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.159, Open Road Media

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• Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Beautiful, Jobs, Men

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• The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  War, Two, Sloth

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• I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fun, Law, Desire

  'Gaudy Night' (1935) ch. 14

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• The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jesus, Winning, Unique

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2015). “The Mind of the Maker”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• . . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Thinking, Needs, Way

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

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• I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Nine Tailors”, p.486, Open Road Media

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• I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Thinking, Should Have, Intellectual

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• Plain lies are dangerous.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Lying, Dangerous

  1937 'The Psychology of Advertising', inThe Spectator,19 Nov.

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• He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Dog, Kind, Appearance

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.200, Open Road Media

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• However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Garden, Mind, Wander

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Limits, Baseness, Publishers

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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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Doe, Stories, Detectives

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