Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Heart, People, Brain

  "Gaudy Night".

• The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Have His Carcase”, p.6, Open Road Media

• We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Heart, Laughing, World

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.290, Open Road Media

• But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain?" "You can usually tell," said Miss de Vine, "by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mistake, Fall, Heart

• He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Uncles, Heart, Men

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.316, Open Road Media

• 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

• 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

• Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Heart, Looks, May

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.397, Open Road Media

• What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Success, Heart, Envy

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.506, Open Road Media

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