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Dorothy L. Sayers Quote: “I’ll tell you why, Mr. Pomfret. Because you haven’t the guts to say No when somebody asks you to be a sport. That tom-fool word has got more people in trouble than all the rest of the dictionary put together. If it’s sporting to encourage girls to break rules and drink more than they can carry and get themselves into a mess on your account, then I’d stop being a sport and try being a gentleman.”

251. “I’ll tell you why, Mr. Pomfret. Because you haven’t the guts to say No when somebody asks you to be a sport. That tom-fool word has got more people in trouble than all the rest of the dictionary put together. If it’s sporting to encourage girls to break rules and drink more than they can carry and get themselves into a mess on your account, then I’d stop being a sport and try being a gentleman.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Quote: “I wanted it all to be wonderful for you.’ She waited for him to find his own answer to this, which he did with disarming swiftness. ‘That’s vanity, I suppose. Take pen and ink and write it down. His lordship is in the enjoyment of very low spirits, owing to his inexplicable inability to bend Providence to his own designs.”

252. “I wanted it all to be wonderful for you.’ She waited for him to find his own answer to this, which he did with disarming swiftness. ‘That’s vanity, I suppose. Take pen and ink and write it down. His lordship is in the enjoyment of very low spirits, owing to his inexplicable inability to bend Providence to his own designs.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Quote: “Harriet was angry, and her face showed it. Men; when they got together they were all alike – even Peter. For a moment he and Kirk stood together on the far side of a chasm, and she hated them both.”

253. “Harriet was angry, and her face showed it. Men; when they got together they were all alike – even Peter. For a moment he and Kirk stood together on the far side of a chasm, and she hated them both.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Quote: “Her faculty for hitting the right nail on the head is almost miraculous – especially as all her blows have the air of being delivered at random. Housekeeping!”

254. “Her faculty for hitting the right nail on the head is almost miraculous – especially as all her blows have the air of being delivered at random. Housekeeping!”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Quote: “Young people today seem to be positively pickled in gin.”

255. “Young people today seem to be positively pickled in gin.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Quote: “When the laws regulating human society are so formed as to come into collision with the nature of things, and in particular with the fundamental realities of human nature, they will end by producing an impossible situation which, unless the laws are altered, will issue in such catastrophes as war, pestilence and famine. Catastrophes thus caused are the execution of universal law upon arbitrary enactments which contravene the facts; they are thus properly called by theologians, judgments of God.”

256. “When the laws regulating human society are so formed as to come into collision with the nature of things, and in particular with the fundamental realities of human nature, they will end by producing an impossible situation which, unless the laws are altered, will issue in such catastrophes as war, pestilence and famine. Catastrophes thus caused are the execution of universal law upon arbitrary enactments which contravene the facts; they are thus properly called by theologians, judgments of God.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Quote: “One must remember that though in one sense the Other World was a definite place, yet in another the kingdom of gods was within one, Earth and fairy-land co-exist upon the same foot of ground. It was all a matter of the seeing eye... the dweller in this world can become aware of an existence on a totally different plane. To go from earth to faery is like passing from this time to eternity; it is not a journey in space, but a change of mental outlook.”

257. “One must remember that though in one sense the Other World was a definite place, yet in another the kingdom of gods was within one, Earth and fairy-land co-exist upon the same foot of ground. It was all a matter of the seeing eye... the dweller in this world can become aware of an existence on a totally different plane. To go from earth to faery is like passing from this time to eternity; it is not a journey in space, but a change of mental outlook.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Quote: “But peace is in the mind, and not in streets, however old and beautiful.”

258. “But peace is in the mind, and not in streets, however old and beautiful.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Quote: “A novelist couldn’t possibly marry all the people from whom she wanted specialised information.”

259. “A novelist couldn’t possibly marry all the people from whom she wanted specialised information.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Quote: “I have a peculiar instinct about pubs. I can find one blindfold in a pea-souper with both hands tied behind me.”

260. “I have a peculiar instinct about pubs. I can find one blindfold in a pea-souper with both hands tied behind me.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Quote: “One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.”

261. “One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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