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Quotes from Gaudy Night — Dorothy L. Sayers

1893–1957 England

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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

Gaudy Night (1936)

Freddie Arbuthnot*: "...mild old gentlemen do sometimes break out into a spot of tut-tuttery."

Gaudy Night (1936)

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realise the deadliness of principles. (Ch. 21)

Gaudy Night (1936)

Lord Peter Wimsey: The first thing a principle does — if it really is a principle — is to kill somebody.

Gaudy Night (1936)

Lord Peter Wimsey: The worst sin – perhaps the only sin – passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Gaudy Night (1936)

Lord Peter Wimsey: The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it – that is at the bottom of the ψευδῆ λέγειν ὡς δεῖ.

Gaudy Night (1936)

Lord Peter Wimsey: A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

Misattributed Gaudy Night (1936)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dorothy L. Sayers (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.