Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes - Page 5

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• To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he is distressed to find that the more means he can dispose of-such as machine-power, rapid transport, and general civilized amenities, the more his problems grow in hardness and complexity....Perhaps the first thing he can learn form the artists is that the only way of 'mastering' one's material is to abandon the whole conception of mastery and to co-operate with it in love: whosoever will be a lord of life, let him be its servant.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Love, Mean, Men

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• The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Tattoo, Sexy, Passion

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.587, Open Road Media

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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.

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  Evil, World, Patterns

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• Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

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  Book, Reading, Lobster

  "The Unpleasantness at The Bellona Club". Book by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1928.

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• How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, People

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “The Documents in the Case”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

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  Parent, Sloth, Sin

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• Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

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  Birthday, Children, Turning 50

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• What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?

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  Morning, Blessed, Food

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.275, Open Road Media

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• Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

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  Law, Littles, Mystery

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.317, Open Road Media

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• If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

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  Hearing, Pleasure, Ifs

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.147, Open Road Media

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• I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.

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  Mean, Law, People

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Unnatural Death”, p.167, Open Road Media

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• There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.

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  Mean, Difficulty, Human Experience

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.158, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

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  Integrity, Artist, Depth

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• A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

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  Passion, Atmosphere, Trying

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

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  Money, Men, People

  "The Other Six Deadly Sins" by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1941.

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• The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

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  Sex, Men, Opposites

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• 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.

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  Past, Men, Thinking

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Whose Body?”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

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  Marriage, Independent, Two

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.583, Open Road Media

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

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  Double Bass, Sculpture, Baggage

  DOROTHY L. SAYERS (1956). “Clouds of Witness AND The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club”

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• It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Valentines Day, Valentine's Day, Valentine Love

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

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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.

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  Men, Use, Rotten

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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.

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  Rain, Fire, Hot

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

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  Outlook, Prove, Ifs

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Whose Body?”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• 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?

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  Success, Heart, Envy

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

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• What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

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  Church, Demand, Tables

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