28 ordspråk av Dorothy L. Sayers

GB  Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers föddes den June 13th 1893 och dog den 17 December 1957 - English writer
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 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.

 Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

 She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

 The first thing a principle does is kill somebody

 The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

 The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

 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.

 Those who make some other person their job . . . are dangerous.

 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.

 Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

 Trouble shared is trouble halved.

 Very dangerous 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.


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