Thrones, Dominations Quotes

“Justice is a terrible thing,” he said, “but injustice is worse.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“London’s rivers,” said Mr. Snell. “You can bury them deep under, sir; you can bind them in tunnels, you can divert them and stop them up and forget about them, you can lose the map, and wipe the name out of mind, but in the end where a river has been, a river will always be.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“For better or worse, Peter, in sickness or in health; don’t you remember?” “I remember perfectly; but I would rather you didn’t have too much of the worse and the sickness to cope with.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“Detective stories contain a dream of justice. They project a vision of a world in which wrongs are righted, and villains are betrayed by clues that they did not know they were leaving.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“I accuse myself of accepting and enjoying the title and rank and privilege—the unthinking automatic respect given me for reasons of birth—and not giving back value for them; not pulling my weight.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“Do you think the sight of my vacant features will lull the suspect into a full confession?”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“your empire is held together by nothing but a name and a dream. You laugh at your own traditions, and are confident that the whole world will respect them. And it does. That is the astonishing thing about it.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“It gave him more amusement to sit back and watch the mistakes made by others than to provide a shining example for their imitation.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“But did he mean what he said? Not everybody cares to see his principles put into practice to his own inconvenience.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“I have six children, ten grandchildren, and only three great-grandchildren. Cats are more reliable.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“Are you going to have any children, or only books?” “Well,” said Harriet, reasonably, “it’s easier to be definite about books. I mean, I know I can produce books.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“the first thing a principle does is to kill people,”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“At least,” said Lady Mary, surprisingly, “it should teach people that it’s the right they have to be afraid of, not the left.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“It was a thing she loved dearly in him, the way he caught and returned allusions.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“A painting takes time. It therefore contains time. The”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“Detective stories contain a dream of justice. They project a vision of a world in which wrongs are righted, and villains are betrayed by clues that they did not know they were leaving. A world in which murderers are caught and hanged, and innocent victims are avenged, and future murder is deterred.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“If they are cold, these English women, it is because they are frozen with neglect.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“No,” he said. “And, Domina, I would not have chosen them. I would greatly have preferred to start shoulder to shoulder with others, or even handicapped. As it is, I am always in a false position; anything I can ever achieve is done by a form of cheating, is the result of an accident of birth.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“Once you have secured to yourself the sort of government that nobody dares to criticise, the way is open for the bullet-proof car, the bodyguard armed to the teeth, and the iron hell of a discipline tightened to hysteria.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“THRONES, DOMINATIONS”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations

“Beautiful people are often rather boring, don't you think?"
"Less beautiful people might rather like to think so," said Harriet.
"But you know what I mean, my dear. All those wealthy men choosing a wife like a piece of furniture or a fine picture, to furnish the house, and then having to listen to her at breakfast twenty years later.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Thrones, Dominations