R. L. S. Hoff Favourite Quotes Collection

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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
Dorothy L. SayersAir 65
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We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.
Dorothy L. SayersStereotypes 39
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I have the most illregulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.
Dorothy L. SayersMemory 41
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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Dorothy L. SayersAdvantage 56
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. SayersAge 60
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Every 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. SayersWork 60
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What do we find God doing about this business of sin and evil...God did not abolish the fact of evil He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion He rose from the dead.
Dorothy L. SayersJesus 66
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Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
Dorothy L. SayersAdvertising 73
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And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you — I am at rest with you — I have come home.
Dorothy L. SayersLove 78
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But thats men all over ... Poor dears they cant help it. They havent got logical minds.
Dorothy L. SayersSatire 92
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A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand.
Dorothy L. SayersConsumerism 113
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Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details the better the flavour seems to be.
Dorothy L. SayersCrime 100
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice WalkerFriend 74
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Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
Alice WalkerWisdom 71
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice WalkerGardening 94
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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Alice WalkerHistory 105
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Sure its simple writing for kidsjust as simple as bringing them up.
Ursula K. Le GuinKids 68
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The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
Ursula K. Le GuinPower 91
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
Ursula K. Le GuinDarkness 629
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