Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes About Hurt

Quotes about: Hurt

• 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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  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

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

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  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

• 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--

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Hurt, Miracle, Looks

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