As I grow older and older, Dorothy L. Sayers More Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers More Quotes From Dorothy L. Sayers To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention. Dorothy L. Sayers invention mathematics mind I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so. Dorothy L. Sayers men past thinking Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints. Dorothy L. Sayers honor kings forever A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant. Dorothy L. Sayers fit wife men Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere. Dorothy L. Sayers cheerful matter people That there is a secret itself is a secret. Dorothy L. Sayers secret A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own. Dorothy L. Sayers atmosphere passion trying 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. Dorothy L. Sayers dust self sea The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary. Dorothy L. Sayers sloth war two 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. Dorothy L. Sayers sin sloth parent There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations. Dorothy L. Sayers social-values limitation kind Trouble shared is trouble halved. Dorothy L. Sayers economy trouble If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground. Dorothy L. Sayers suits ifs war 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. Dorothy L. Sayers mind beauty people Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person." "That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said." "All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it." "But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace. Dorothy L. Sayers emotional games play But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds. Dorothy L. Sayers ironic mind men For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have. Dorothy L. Sayers hazards sake giving He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain. Dorothy L. Sayers uncles heart men Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey. Dorothy L. Sayers locks wonder school He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity. Dorothy L. Sayers kind appearance dog
