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 More Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers More Quotes From Dorothy L. Sayers 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. Dorothy L. Sayers patterns evil world Very dangerous things, theories. Dorothy L. Sayers dangerous-things dangerous theory I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream. Dorothy L. Sayers garden dream night What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables. Dorothy L. Sayers demand church tables She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra. Dorothy L. Sayers peter laughter ifs 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. Dorothy L. Sayers devil passion looks Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprème de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croûtons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know. Dorothy L. Sayers twists beautiful thinking 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 members individual class It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces? Dorothy L. Sayers real wish dream Well-bred English people never have imagination. Dorothy L. Sayers england imagination people The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth. Dorothy L. Sayers heart people thinking Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind. Dorothy L. Sayers emotional food philosophy Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin. Dorothy L. Sayers forgiveness sin The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning. Dorothy L. Sayers cunning devil spiritual There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life. Dorothy L. Sayers way 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. Dorothy L. Sayers human-experience difficulty mean the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series. Dorothy L. Sayers interpretation autobiography elements Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'. Dorothy L. Sayers eye kind brain It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt. Dorothy L. Sayers innocent hurt needs When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems. Dorothy L. Sayers cat fire thinking
