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All Quotes by author - Dorothy L. Sayers
" A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own. "
Passion
Trying
You
" A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. "
Human
Become
Human Being
" As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom. "
Bed
Find
Care
" Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. "
Seems
Death
Single
" Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him. "
Men
Money
People
" I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. "
Always
Thinking
Everything
" If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground. "
Ground
Down
Would
" I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home. "
I Am
I Love You
Home
" Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. "
Mystery
Know
You
" None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience. "
People
True Love
God
" Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. "
Believe
Seem
Look
" She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away. "
Enough
You
Run
" The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama. "
Imagination
Faith
Most
" The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. "
Kind
Language
Simplicity
" The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. "
Nobody
Great
Telling
" The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless. "
Only
Sin
Passion
" 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. "
People
Thought
Personality
" There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks. "
Because
Will
Story
" There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited. "
Outlook
Your
Nothing
" Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous. "
Job
Some
Who
" Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. "
Minds
Weak
Mastery
" Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. "
Trouble
Young
Woman
" Trouble shared is trouble halved. "
Trouble
Shared
" Very dangerous things, theories. "
Very
Things
Theories
" While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern. "
Time
Evil
Future
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