Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

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If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social r — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not pe — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to sa — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The gre — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity. — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
I suppose one oughtn’t to marry anybody, unless one’s prepared to make him a full-time job.”“Probably not; though there — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Mis — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
He was being about as protective as a can-opener. — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
She had her image… and anything added to that would be mere verse-making. Something might come of it some day. In the me — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what th — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what th — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal. — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated—yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the most difficult of all hum — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Persons curious in chronology may, if they like, work out from what they already know of the Wimsey family that the acti — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night