Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

Dorothy L. Sayers

Mots clés humor love heart paper

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If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Mots clés lord-peter-wimsey

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I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had eyes in ones knees, it would be a lot more practical’… ‘What luck! Here’s a deep, damp ditch on the other side, which I shall now proceed to fall into.’ A slithering crash proclaimed that he had carried out his intention.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world’s history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Mots clés jesus resurrection dorothy-l-sayers dorothy-sayers

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Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;
If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

Dorothy L. Sayers

Mots clés christianity adventure death dragons

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I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Mots clés memory lord-peter-wimsey lord-peter

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What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Mots clés evil god jesus

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Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).

Dorothy L. Sayers

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I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Mots clés sherlock-holmes humour wrong watson

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