01c. 1925 ADLord Peter Wimsey: Facts, Bunter, must have facts. When I was a small boy, I always hated facts. Thought they were nasty, hard things, all nobs. Mervyn Bunter: Yes, my lord. My old mother always used to say... Lord Peter Wimsey: Your mother, Bunter? Oh, I never knew you had one. I always thought you just sort of came along already-made, so it were. Oh, excuse me. How infernally rude of me. Beg pardon, I'm sure. Mervyn Bunter: That's all right, my lord. Lord Peter Wimsey: Thank you. Mervyn Bunter: Yes indeed, I was one of seven. Lord Peter Wimsey: That is pure invention, Bunter, I know better. You are unique. But you were going to tell me about your mater. Mervyn Bunter: Oh yes, my lord. My old mother always used to say that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, and they generally run away. Lord Peter Wimsey: By Jove, that's courageous, Bunter. What a splendid person she must be. Mervyn Bunter: I think so, my lord.Dorothy L. Sayers / quote ↗
02c. 1925 ADIn the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.Dorothy L. Sayers / quote ↗
03c. 1925 ADHe remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.Dorothy L. Sayers / quote ↗
04c. 1925 ADPeople who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.Dorothy L. Sayers / quote ↗
05c. 1925 ADA continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.Dorothy L. Sayers / quote ↗
07c. 1925 ADWhat we make is more important than what we are particularly if making is our profession.Dorothy L. Sayers / quote ↗
08c. 1925 ADYou cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.Dorothy L. Sayers / quote ↗
09c. 1925 ADThe worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.Dorothy L. Sayers / quote ↗
10c. 1925 ADTime and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.Dorothy L. Sayers / quote ↗
11c. 1925 ADEvery woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.Dorothy L. Sayers / quote ↗
14c. 1925 ADDeath seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.Dorothy L. Sayers / quote ↗
15c. 1925 ADThe great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.Dorothy L. Sayers / quote ↗
16c. 1925 ADLawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.Dorothy L. Sayers / quote ↗
17c. 1925 ADEvery time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.Dorothy L. Sayers / quote ↗
