Dorothy L. Sayers quotes - page 2

Lord Peter Wimsey: She has a sense of humor... and brains... life wouldn't be dull. One would wake up, and there would be a whole day full of jolly things to do. And then we would come home and go to bed... and that would be jolly too. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
The Church's approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables. Church by all means, and decent forms of amusement, certainly-but what use is all that if in the very center of his life and occupation he is insulting God with bad carpentry? No crooked table legs or ill-fitting drawers ever came out of the carpenter's shop at Nazareth. Nor, if they did, could anyone believe that they were made by the same hand that made Heaven and earth. View quote
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In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die. View quote
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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience. View quote
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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. View quote
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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. View quote
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I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them. View quote
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People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. View quote
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How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. View quote
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Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal. View quote
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Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served. View quote
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A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own. View quote
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless. View quote
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To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid. View quote
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A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity. View quote
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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. View quote
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Very dangerous things, theories. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. View quote
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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us. View quote
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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. View quote
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