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There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Age: 64 †
Born: 1893
Born: June 13
Died: 1957
Died: December 17
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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
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whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.
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Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
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Well-bred English people never have imagination.
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Do you know how to pick a lock? Not in the least, I'm afraid. I often wonder what we go to school for, said Wimsey.
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Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind they make life more interesting.
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The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.
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She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
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I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
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It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.
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It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.
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What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion He rose from the dead.
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Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.
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That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.
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It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.
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If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle
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The first thing a principle does is kill somebody
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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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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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