Dorothy L. Sayers - Person Quotes

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

Because a person has monomania she need not be wrong about her facts.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I always said the professional advocate was the most amoral person on the face of the earth. I'm certain of it now. - Lord Peter Wimsey

Dorothy L. Sayers

Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

Dorothy L. Sayers

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

Dorothy L. Sayers

A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.

Dorothy L. Sayers