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You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks.

You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Hurt, Mean, Blow
Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.187, Open Road Media

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Truth, Whole, Knows
Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.206, Open Road Media

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Letters, Firsts, Vulgar
Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.162, Open Road Media

I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Jobs, Thinking, Hands
Dorothy L. Sayers (2011). “The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?”, p.53, Peschel Press

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Giving, Diversity, Devil

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