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The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.
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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Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.
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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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She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
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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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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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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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I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.
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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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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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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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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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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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To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
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Plain lies are dangerous.
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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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Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
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The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.
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But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
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The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.
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