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Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.
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've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
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Well-bred English people never have imagination.
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It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.
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I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.
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Advertising never sold a bad product twice.
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It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.
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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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She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.
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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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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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The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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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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First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
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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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Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
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The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.
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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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Britain possesses no climate, only weather.
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To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.
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