Gaudy Night Quotes

#1. What do you want me to do, Peter?"
"Chuck the ball back to me if it runs out of the circle. Not obviously. Just exercise your devastating talent for keeping to the point and speaking the truth."
"That sounds easy."
"It is
for you. That's what I love you for."
Gaudy Night

Dorothy L. Sayers

#2. The first thing a principle does is to kill somebody.
Gaudy Night

Dorothy L. Sayers

#3. Come,
Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me
All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more.
Let's mock the midnight bell.

William Shakespeare

#4. There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#5. A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.

Stephen King

#6. In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.

Hortense Powdermaker

#7. He would have been bright and gaudy and bizarrely appealing, so far from this tired, aging echo, faded as a clown's cracking makeup at the end of the night.

Cole McCade

#8. Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion.

Ralph Ellison

#9. As long as we are graceful, appreciative lodgers, the earth remains healthy and wondrous.

KT Tunstall

#10. From man's blood-sodden heart are sprung
Those branches of the night and day
Where the gaudy moon is hung.
What's the meaning of all song?
Let all things pass away.

W.B.Yeats

#11. Brushing up on your short game at the practice area is fine and good, but taking it with you to the golf course - when your score is really on the line - is another story.

Ernie Els

#12. I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.

Robin Williams

#13. She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#14. The incident had that rich savor of the ludicrous which neither pity nor charity can destroy. Unfortunately, she could not in decency share it with anybody; she could only enjoy it in lonely ecstasies of mirth.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#15. Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.

George Vecsey

#16. I'm so confident that when I enter a coffee shop everyone immediately looks at my hands to see if I'm carrying a gun.

Daniel Marques

#17. Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat.

Trent Jamieson