He was being about as protective as a can-opener.
– Dorothy L Sayers
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- To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or – Dorothy L Sayers
- Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. – Dorothy L Sayers
- That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying. – Dorothy L Sayers
- A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity. – Dorothy L Sayers
- Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper – Dorothy L Sayers
- Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody. – Dorothy L Sayers
- But that’s men all over … Poor dears, they can’t help it. They haven’t got logical minds. – Dorothy L Sayers
- [On marriage and permanent attach – Dorothy L Sayers
- The only Christian work is good work well done. – Dorothy L Sayers
- The only Christian work is good work well done. – Dorothy L Sayers
- At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature! – Dorothy L Sayers
- Some people’s blameless lives are to blame for a good deal. – Dorothy L Sayers
- A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. – Dorothy L Sayers
- The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere. – Dorothy L Sayers
- People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. – Dorothy L Sayers
- The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things. – Dorothy L Sayers
- Obedience is the opener of eyes. – George MacDonald
- The 9th key may be the door opener. Don’t give up after trying the 8th. Keep doing it! – Israelmore Ayivor
- When a blind man says, ‘God is good,’ this should be an eye-opener to those who can see. – Anthony Liccione
- Tonight was definitely an eye opener, but a reminder of how I use to be & why. Self discovery happens at such random times. – April Mae Monterrosa
- Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. – Terry Pratchett
- the walking stick, like a burqa, conferred protective status… – Robert Galbraith
- A person can put up any kind of protective wall, but love and truth always find a way around it. – Molly Friedenfeld
- The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth. – Kilroy J Oldster
- When we don’t see the value of a thing, we don’t put the protective edge. – Sunday Adelaja
- That lack of value sense would deprive a person from a protective instinct. – Sunday Adelaja
- There is no fear in True Love. It is protective, and never gives a reason to doubt. – Ellen J Barrier
- Surround yourself with ‘yay-sayers’ not naysayers. – Lynn A Robinson
- By our day, self-restraint was considered madness. – Mark Sayers
- Life is a beautiful bitch,but appreciate her,because some didn’t even get the chance to get to know her. – Daytona Louise Sayers
- This culture of distraction was nothing new. Christianity was born into one. – Mark Sayers
- Every second counts – Dorothy Koomson
- the problems changed, but people were the same – Dorothy Gilman
- The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down! – Dorothy Day
- She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go. – Dorothy Parker
- Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it. – Dorothy M Neddermeyer
- There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another. – Dorothy Salisbury Davis
- But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands. – Dorothy Dunnett
- Christmas is a time for families. – Dorothy Koomson
- So go, girl. We should have been one person all along, not two. – Dorothy Baker