Dorothy L. Sayers Short Quotes

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It pays to advertise!

Dorothy L. Sayers
To suppress a fact is to publish a falsehood.

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Well-bred English people never have imagination...

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Trouble shared is trouble halved. - Lord Peter Wimsey

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Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

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To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

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

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We don't want to make large and ignominious public mistakes.
Charles Parker

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How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

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We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

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Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

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There is no remedy for this:
Good days that will not come again.

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One must not only die daily, but every day one must be born again.

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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

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When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

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

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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

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The first thing a principle does is kill somebody. - Lord Peter Wimsey

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... the biggest obstacle to good advertising is the client. - Mr. Hankin

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There is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

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Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

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Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

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There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

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Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

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Herein is all the peace of heaven:
To know we have failed and are forgiven.

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There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

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What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

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At no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

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