28 ordspråk av Dorothy L. Sayers
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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Proverb (1469536 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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