Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.
Dorothy L. SayersIt's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.
Dorothy L. SayersThe trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.
Dorothy L. SayersThere certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
Dorothy L. SayersTo make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
Dorothy L. SayersListen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person." "That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said." "All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it." "But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.
Dorothy L. Sayers