Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes - Page 6

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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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• 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.

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  Work, Mean, Profound

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2014). “The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright”, p.248, St. Martin's Press

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• Placetne, magistra?" "Placet.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Gaudy Night (1935) ch. 23 (Lord Peter Wimsey's marriage proposal to Harriet Vane, and her acceptance)

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• Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and the nature of an and the ultimate nature of the universe; it is a war of dogma.

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  Christian, Religious, War

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• 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.

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  Uncles, Heart, Men

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

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• Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.

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  Sex, Disappointment, Spots

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• ... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

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  Artistic, Found, Theological

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2011). “The Man Born to Be King: A Play-cycle on the Life of Our Loard and Saviour Jesus Christ”, p.37, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• 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.

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  Care, Bones, Sin

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.38, Open Road Media

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

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  Men, Mind, Ironic

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.476, Open Road Media

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• Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

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  Jobs, Danger, Dangerous

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• What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

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  Work, Important, Profession

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2014). “The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright”, p.222, St. Martin's Press

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• There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

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  Community, Way, Facts

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• Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.

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  Philosophy, Food, Emotional

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “The Documents in the Case”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• Advertising never sold a bad product twice.

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  Advertising, Products

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• I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

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  Regret, Food, Eggs

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the Ego, so that the child who has fantasied himself a murderer ends by becoming a Loeb or a Leopold. The creative Imagination works outwards, steadily increasing the gap between the visioned and the actual, till this becomes the great gulf fixed between art and nature. Few writers of crime-stories become murderers--if any do, it is not the result of identifying themselves with their murderous heroes.

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  Art, Children, Hero

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2015). “The Mind of the Maker”, p.93, Open Road Media

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• A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

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  Political, Original Thought, Originality

  "Gaudy Night". Book by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1936.

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

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  Drunk, Sober, Easy

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.393, Open Road Media

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• All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.

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  Mother, Children, Book

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Nine Tailors”, p.464, Open Road Media

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• Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me." "People have been wrongly condemned before now." "Exactly; simply because I wasn't there." "I never thought of that.

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  Thinking, People, Said

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• Very dangerous things, theories.

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  Theory, Dangerous, Dangerous Things

  The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Chapter 4

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• 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.

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  Mean, Clarity, Plain English

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• 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.

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  Heart, Thinking, People

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

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• Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

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  Race, Mind, Amusement

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