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Quotes About Dorothy

You yourselves will be able to judge whether that is a usual and natural form of expression
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The fenman gazed at Wimsey with a slow pity for his bird-witted feebleness of mind.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Bloody little fool!" said Sergeant Bunter.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
is mathematically compounded of ambition, distraction, uglification and derision
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
May we take it that he was in exceptionally lively spirits?" suggested Counsel. "Take it in any spirit you like," muttered the witness, adding, more happily, "Take a peg of John Begg.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I can't write five words but that I change seven.
~ Dorothy Parker
It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
~ Dorothy Parker
People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!
~ Dorothy Parker
When you're awake, all the men go and fall for you - Sleep, pretty lady, and give me a chance (From the poem Lullaby)
~ Dorothy Parker
Dance, you jazz-mad puppets of fate, and
~ Dorothy Parker
race was presumed to be an essential biological category. This is not a happy-ending tale of science overcoming racism.
~ Dorothy Roberts
I trust you told her I had succumbed to lethargic encephalitis suddenly, no flowers by request.
~ Dorothy Sayers
Now we must feast!' Dorothy declared as they headed indoors. Not on the baby, but on its placenta, fried by Jeanette with onions and parsley. Viola declined her portion – it seemed like cannibalism, not to mention utterly disgusting.
~ Kate Atkinson
People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!
~ Dorothy Parker
Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.
~ Laurie Lee, Cider With Rosie
The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.
~ George Ade
A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
~ Dorothy Parker
God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.
~ Dorothy Day
Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.
~ L. Frank Baum
I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she's at least an acquaintance of Dorothy.
~ David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
Dorothy doesn't mind skipping the author's philosophies to get to those moments when one character, often the most surprising, reaches down inside herself and is better than her nature allows.
~ Richard Powers
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
He is my dog, Toto, answered Dorothy. Is he made of tin, or stuffed? asked the Lion. Neither. He's a-- a-- a meat dog, said the girl.
~ L. Frank Baum