Dorothy L. Sayers quotes - page 4

Lord Peter Wimsey: I always said the professional advocate was the most amoral person on the face of the earth. I'm certain of it now. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
Lord Peter Wimsey: I'm told I make love rather nicely. Though I am at a bit of a disadvantage at the moment. One can't be too convincing at the other end of the table with a bloke looking in the window. View quote
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Charles Parker: We don't want to make large and ignominious public mistakes. View quote
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Mr. Ingleby: You don't need an argument for buying butter. It's a natural, human instinct. View quote
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Freddie Arbuthnot*: "...mild old gentlemen do sometimes break out into a spot of tut-tuttery." View quote
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Many words have no legal meaning. Others have a legal meaning very unlike their ordinary meaning. For example, the word 'daffydown-dilly.' It is a criminal libel to call a lawyer a daffy-down-dilly. Ha! Yes, I advise you never to do such a thing. No, I certainly advise you never to do it. View quote
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As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom. View quote
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There is perhaps one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job if she is a woman, we say she is afreak. View quote
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Advertise, or go under. View quote
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If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort. View quote
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It pays to advertise! - her best-known slogan for S. H. Benson's, then one of Britain's most prominent advertising firms (Mitzi Brunsdale, Dorothy L. Sayers. New York: Berg, 1990, p. 194) (Dorothy L. Sayers)
And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home. - Lord Peter Wimsey to Harriet Vane, now his wife. View quote
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Lord Peter Wimsey: Your mother, Bunter? Oh, I never knew you had one. I always thought you just sort of came along already-made, so it were. View quote
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The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. View quote
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Harriet Vane: I know what you're thinking--that anybody with proper sensitive feeling 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 feeling should prevent me from doing my proper job. View quote
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And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home. View quote
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