That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood had changed since the early hours of the afternoon and all his defences were up once more. She could not again disregard the ‘No Thoroughfare’ sign; so she left it to him to start a fresh subject.


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Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Experience has taught me," said Peter (...) "that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he shou...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
The boat rocked perilously as they heaved and tore at the clinging weeds, razor-sharp and strong as ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Peter—do please be happy. I mean, you’ve always been the comfortable sort of person that nothing...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
I say--I've thought of a good plot for a detective story."
"Really?"
"Top--hole. You know,...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
My idea is that Miss Vane didn't do it," said Wimsey. "I dare say that's an idea which has already o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
I love Brian Piccolo, and I'd like all of you to love him. When you hit your knees to pray tonight, ...
GALE SAYERS
I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ...
GALE SAYERS
There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reas...
GALE SAYERS
Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
GALE SAYERS
We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There ar...
GALE SAYERS
Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
GALE SAYERS
I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
GALE SAYERS
What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of t...
GALE SAYERS
We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
GALE SAYERS
Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Ira...
GALE SAYERS
I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remem...
GALE SAYERS
Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will...
GALE SAYERS
There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
GALE SAYERS
When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
GALE SAYERS
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
GALE SAYERS
Transfer of title has been completed, the Island corridor is now Island-owned and it's connecting co...
JUDITH SAYERS
Half these people out here who are getting autographs are getting it for somebody else -- a dealer o...
GALE SAYERS
He says he won't sign anything because he knows what they're doing with the stuff, and I don't disag...
GALE SAYERS
Tomorrow, you might see a passing shower around the midday.
MATT SAYERS
I'm 62 years old. You can't tell me that some little kid coming up to me -- he doesn't know me. Thes...
GALE SAYERS
Both Ray and I are racing fans. Also, we both have the same goals and desire to succeed, to win and ...
GALE SAYERS
There's no way I would have made the Hall of Fame or set any of the records I did by myself. No matt...
GALE SAYERS
It's all about possibilities. Now that we're re-connected, it also gives us an incentive to build co...
JUDITH SAYERS
There is a great deal of potential, but there are also a few challenges for any potential operator. ...
JUDITH SAYERS
There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but th...
JUDITH SAYERS
The next five years will be very exciting. We have a lot of vibrant people in the neighborhood wanti...
JENNIFER SAYERS
There's been a fabulous resurgence of people fixing up homes. The house values are steadily increasi...
JENNIFER SAYERS
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an...
DOROTHY THOMPSON
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is t...
DOROTHY DIX
Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries...
DOROTHY DUNNETT
My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!
DOROTHY KILGALLEN
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it...
DOROTHY PARKER
You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
DOROTHY DIX
You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.
DOROTHY PARKER
It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that mak...
DOROTHY DIX
Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
DOROTHY PARKER
The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
DOROTHY DAY
I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER
Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basi...
DOROTHY RIERA
The friends I made have slipped and strayed.
And who's the one that cares
A trifling lot and...
DOROTHY PARKER
Work is the province of cattle.
DOROTHY PARKER
I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to th...
DOROTHY HAMILL
I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed wa...
DOROTHY HAMILL
Once when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And ...
DOROTHY PARKER
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts a...
DOROTHY PARKER
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it'...
DOROTHY PARKER
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER
Oh, it is sure as it is sad
That any lad is every lad,
And what's a girl, to dare implore DOROTHY PARKER
I never see the prettiest thing -
A cherry bough gone white with Spring -
But what I think, Ho...
DOROTHY PARKER
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out ...
DOROTHY PARKER
The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhap...
DOROTHY NEVILL
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of...
DOROTHY ALLISON
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o...
DOROTHY PARKER
If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
DOROTHY GAMBRELL
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
DOROTHY PARKER
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKER
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
...
DOROTHY PARKER
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
DOROTHY ALLISON
Oh seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER
If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I...
DOROTHY PARKER