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I hope you won't mind, because I haven't shaved since this morning, but I'm going to take you round the next quiet corner and kiss you. — Dorothy L. Sayers

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. — Dorothy L. Sayers

A man was taken to the Zoo and shown the giraffe. After gazing at it a little in silence: 'I don't believe it,' he said. — Dorothy L. Sayers

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle — Dorothy L. Sayers

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular) — Dorothy L. Sayers

Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis. — Dorothy L. Sayers

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something. — Dorothy L. Sayers

To mention honor was to suggest its opposite. — Dorothy L. Sayers

First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it. — Dorothy L. Sayers

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Thank God!' said Wimsey. 'Where there is a church, there is civilisation. — Dorothy L. Sayers

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers. — J.K. Rowling

Don't let the smallest chance slip by; you never know until you try — Dorothy L. Sayers

Advertise, or go under. — Dorothy L. Sayers

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause? — Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Pray silence for the soloist. But let him be soon over, that we may hear the great striding fugue again. — Dorothy L. Sayers

There are crimes which the Law cannot reach. — Dorothy L. Sayers

The glass-blower's cat is bompstable, said Mr. Parker aloud and distinctly. — Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Those who make some other person their job ... are dangerous. — Dorothy L. Sayers

He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Jerrykins, or Pickled Gherkins. Lord Peter was not one of those born uncles who delight old nurses by their — Dorothy L. Sayers

I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them. — Dorothy L. Sayers

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed. — Dorothy L. Sayers

But the worse you express yourself these days the more profound people think you
though that's nothing new. — Dorothy L. Sayers

The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity. — Dorothy L. Sayers

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. — Dorothy L. Sayers

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity. — Dorothy L. Sayers

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever. — Dorothy L. Sayers

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage. — Dorothy L. Sayers

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

There's something hypnotic about the word tea. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Even if it is the twilight of the world, before night falls I will sleep in your arms.' ... — Dorothy L. Sayers

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed
a kind of amiable absurdity. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. — Dorothy L. Sayers

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

in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque. — Dorothy L. Sayers

If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth. — Dorothy L. Sayers

His lordship is in the enjoyment of very low spirits, owing to his inexplicable inability to bend Providence to his own designs. — Dorothy L. Sayers

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

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it. — Dorothy L. Sayers

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. — Dorothy L. Sayers

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. — Dorothy L. Sayers

But we can never hope for a whole jury-box full of ecclesiastical diehards. — Dorothy L. Sayers

You needn't try to bully me, young man," said that octogenarian with spirit, "settin' there spoilin' your stomach with them nasty jujubes. — Dorothy L. Sayers

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;
If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death! — Dorothy L. Sayers

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. — Dorothy L. Sayers

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

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon. — Dorothy L. Sayers

The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come. — Dorothy L. Sayers

She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses. — Dorothy L. Sayers

honestly--then dishonestly. — Dorothy L. Sayers

(One character on another
Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face? — Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal. — Dorothy L. Sayers

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking. — Dorothy L. Sayers

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world. — Dorothy L. Sayers

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence. — Dorothy L. Sayers

That there is a secret itself is a secret. — Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, however offensive they may be. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Very dangerous things, theories. — Dorothy L. Sayers

What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains? — Dorothy L. Sayers

A person who can believe all the articles of the Christian faith is not going to boggle over a trifle of adverse evidence. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so. — Dorothy L. Sayers

The first thing a principle does is kill somebody — Dorothy L. Sayers

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. — Dorothy L. Sayers

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I took the liberty of ascertaining as much beforehand, my lord."
"Of course you did, Bunter. You always ascertain everything. — Dorothy L. Sayers

His [Lord Peter's] long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola. — Dorothy L. Sayers

In detective stories virtue is always triumphant. They're the purest literature we have — Dorothy L. Sayers

The only Christian work is good work well done. — Dorothy L. Sayers

A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself. — Dorothy L. Sayers

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

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

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally. — 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. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Let the galled jade wince' - — Dorothy L. Sayers

The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling. — Dorothy L. Sayers

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Plain lies are dangerous. — Dorothy L. Sayers

In every age, art holds up to us the standard pattern of exemplary conduct, and real life does its best to conform. — Dorothy L. Sayers

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling
it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I didn't mind thinking you were a murderer," said Lady Mary spitefully, "but I do mind you being such an ass. — Dorothy L. Sayers

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"
"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Something was jigging and worrying in his brain; it felt like a hive of bees, stirred up by a stick. — Dorothy L. Sayers

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood. — Dorothy L. Sayers

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver. — Dorothy L. Sayers