Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes - Page 9

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• But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Issues, Labyrinth, World

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.334, Open Road Media

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• But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.

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  Beauty, People, Mind

  "Gaudy Night".

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• I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had eyes in ones knees, it would be a lot more practical’… ‘What luck! Here’s a deep, damp ditch on the other side, which I shall now proceed to fall into.’ A slithering crash proclaimed that he had carried out his intention.

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  Fall, Eye, Thinking

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.60, Open Road Media

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• It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

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  Believe, Needs, Impossible

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.177, Open Road Media

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• He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

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  Protective, Protectiveness

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.396, Open Road Media

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• The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

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  Artist, Creative, Way

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• And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

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  Night, Silence, Sound

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.290, Open Road Media

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• this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

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  Giving, Diversity, Devil

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• Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

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  Letters, Firsts, Vulgar

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.162, Open Road Media

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• I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Hands

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2011). “The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?”, p.53, Peschel Press

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• the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Elements, Interpretation, Autobiography

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.71, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

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  Eye, Brain, Kind

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Lord Peter Views the Body”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• Well-bred English people never have imagination.

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  People, Imagination, England

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.207, Open Road Media

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• It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

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  Morning, Night, Gentleman

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• make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

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  Mistake, Expression, Stories

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• Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--

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  Hurt, Miracle, Looks

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• It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?

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  Dream, Real, Wish

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• You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.

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  Hurt, Mean, Blow

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.187, Open Road Media

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• The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

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  Social, Badges, Idle

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• It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

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  Hurt, Needs, Innocent

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.568, Open Road Media

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• [O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

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  Writing, Want, Obscure

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• The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

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  Running, Writing, Hype

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• If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

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  War, Suits, Ifs

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• ... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.

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  Opposites, Honor

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

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  Time, Thinking, Feet

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