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How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!
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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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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I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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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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Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.
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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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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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We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
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this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.
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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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There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.
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But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
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And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.
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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward to look forward we must believe in age.
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I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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