Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes about Heart

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Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Heart, Looks, May

Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.397, Open Road Media

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Heart, Laughing, World

Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.290, Open Road Media

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

Dorothy L. Sayers

Heart, People, Brain

"Gaudy Night".

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

Dorothy L. Sayers

Success, Heart, Envy

Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.506, Open Road Media

He 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

Uncles, Heart, Men

Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.316, Open Road Media

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Heart, Thinking, People

Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Have His Carcase”, p.6, Open Road Media

But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain?" "You can usually tell," said Miss de Vine, "by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Mistake, Fall, Heart

If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Jesus, Taken, Heart