Top 100 Quotes About Dorothy

#1. I hope you won't mind, because I haven't shaved since this morning, but I'm going to take you round the next quiet corner and kiss you.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#2. In Rome there is a pathological shortage of small coins. For change, the little shops tend to use candy.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#3. If I were white, I could capture the world.

Dorothy Dandridge

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#4. Why write stories? To join the conversation.

Dorothy Allison

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#5. Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.

Dorothy Allison

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#6. True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

Dorothy Day

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#7. The trouble with Austin was that he believed so deeply in the chivalrous virtues that he found it impossible to refer to them.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#8. Only silly Dorothys arrive in a magical land and want to go home. You don't want to be a silly stinking Dorothy, do you? They're reviled throughout every wondrous land. Did you know the name Dorothy translates as "squandered opportunity"?

Bill Willingham

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#9. I took the liberty of ascertaining as much beforehand, my lord."
"Of course you did, Bunter. You always ascertain everything.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#10. Be kind to her when she comes back. Her love is not only for children but for humanity. She will be a good-hearted and magnificent zealot one day. As her mother is now.
Goodbye, Kate. And below he had signed as he rarely did, with his Christian name.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#11. This couldn't be just a lake. No real water was ever blue like that. A light breeze stirred the pin-cherry tree beside the window, ruffled the feathers of a fat sea gull promenading on the pink rocks below. The breeze was full of evergreen spice.

Dorothy Maywood Bird

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#12. The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy's room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark.

L. Frank Baum

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#13. Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#14. If life was like a body of water, she had asked that she be allowed to walk again in its shallows; instead she had been abruptly seized by strong currents and pushed into deep water.

Dorothy Gilman

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#15. You can never judge a paint hue by the liquid color in the paint pot. You must apply it to a wall, wait for the paint to dry, then decide.

Dorothy Draper

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#16. Harriet laughed, remembering suddenly that a novelist owes a duty to her newspaper reporters.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#17. I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my father told him I was too young.

Dorothy Hamill

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#18. I was consumed by a selfishness and arrogance that I didn't dare let go of until I found a new persona to hide behind.

Dorothy Koomson

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#19. Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina is a coming-of-age novel about Ruth Ann (Bone) Boatwright and a difficult childhood made even harder by her violent and predatory stepfather.

Nancy Pearl

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#20. I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.

Dorothy Koomson

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#21. Until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison and secret bitterness. Men fight about their philosophies and religions, there is no certainty in them; but their contempt for women is flawless and unanimous.

Dorothy Richardson

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#22. While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

Dorothy Denning

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#23. His books are exciting and powerful and - if I may filch the word from the booksy ones - pulsing.

Dorothy Parker

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#24. The bush was alive with excitement.

Dorothy Wall

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#25. Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

Dorothy Parker

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#26. Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-earth ways that people could show their love for each other. If the love was not there in the beginning, but only the need, such gifts made love grow.

Dorothy Day

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#27. We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.

Dorothy Dix

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#28. Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

Dorothy Parker

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#29. And the winner of the drawing that night was an eleven-year-old black girl named Dorothy Daffodil-7 Garland.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#30. While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

Dorothy Denning

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#31. All conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#32. Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

Dorothy West

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#33. The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Dorothy Parker

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#34. Should they whisper false of you, never trouble to deny. Should the words they say be true, weep and storm and swear they lie!

Dorothy Parker

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#35. If the Best is yet to come, the Present will blend with it Beautifully.

Dorothy West

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#36. I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.

Dorothy Allison

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#37. If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted.

John DeChancie

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#38. When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.

Dorothy Hamill

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#39. What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#40. I fell into the water with a large splash and sunk like a stone. My feet guided the way as I drifted further into the murky depths.
Down.
Down.
Down.

Brynn Myers

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#41. There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#42. Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#43. An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.

Dorothy Wordsworth

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#44. Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

Dorothy Norman

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#45. One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

Dorothy Day

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#46. I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.

Dorothy Parker

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#47. Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#48. Life is full of risks. But if you try to build a fence around all your fears, you'll shut out joy too.

Dorothy Love

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#49. Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.

Dorothy Day

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#50. Lion-hearted; her tremors braced with virtue, Philippa trotted on.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#51. People want biography. People want memoir. They want you to tell them that the story you're telling them is true. The thing I'm telling you is true, but it did not always happen to me.

Dorothy Allison

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#52. Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.

Dorothy Parker

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#53. In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#54. Every ruin is packed like a biscuit box.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#55. There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#56. Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming feature and are blind to details that will give us trouble later on.

Dorothy Draper

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#57. We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.

Dorothy Fields

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#58. If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world ...

Dorothy Nevill

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#59. fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

Dorothy Allison

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#60. Without Satan, no Christ.

Dorothy Norman

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#61. He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure - if he survives the experience.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#62. She wouldn't send anyone, nor would she take anyone with her. She organizes witches' Sabbaths every full moon,' explained Philippa tartly.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#63. Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.

Dorothy Sarnoff

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#64. Murder could be a psychological alternative to suicide.

Dorothy Simpson

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#65. There's no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

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#66. Does he understand now that 'what if?' isn't fair when, under a different set of circumstances, you were asked to polarise things into one moment in time, when you had to defend what you wanted at a completely different moment? Kamryn to Luke

Dorothy Koomson

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#67. The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

Dorothy Richardson

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#68. Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones.

Dorothy Hamill

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#69. Perhaps you didn't say much about him, mother, but Gerald said lots - dreadful things!'
'Yes,' said the Duchess, 'he said what he thought. The present generation does, you know. To the uninitiated, I admit, dear, it does sound a little rude.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#70. It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

Dorothy Parker

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#71. 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

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#72. Kill the guard real dead for me," Matt said when Grayson made a move toward the door, "and pick up Chinese food".

Dorothy McFalls

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#73. I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them.

Dorothy Hodgkin

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#74. I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

Dorothy Fields

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#75. I have learned,' said Lymond, 'that kindness without love is no kindness.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#76. If we're going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others.

Dorothy Koomson

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#77. My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart,
And I wish somebody'd shoot him.

Dorothy Parker

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#78. God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them

Dorothy Day

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#79. No," said Harriet, who had been exercising

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#80. He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed
a kind of amiable absurdity.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#81. The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book.

Dorothy Parker

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#82. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#83. For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.

Dorothy Day

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#84. It was your brother. He must be insane."

"Not insane, dear." Sybilla, speaking gently, contradicted. "Not insane. But magnificently drunk, I fear.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#85. The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

Dorothy Height

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#86. How he loathed his life-long slavery to the clock, that pervasive intimate negative opposed to every spontaneous impulse. "It's the clock that is the nay-sayer to life," he thought

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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#87. Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement.

Dorothy Lamour

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#88. Modern war is fought by a number of strong, sweaty horsemen with constipation, who have their eyes on power, on wealth and on glory, and who obey the rules just when it pleases them.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#89. Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.

Dorothy Day

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#90. Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

Dorothy Kilgallen

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#91. I devised a somewhat arbitrary way out of my own difficulties that evening.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#92. I was born when you kissed me.

Dorothy B. Hughes

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#93. Who am I? Or possibly, who AM I? Make it who I WAS, because once I was somebody.

Dorothy Baker

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#94. He just hijacks me. I love him. And I won't be able to give anyone a real chance until that's over.

Dorothy Koomson

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#95. A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ...

Dorothy Nevill

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#96. The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

Dorothy Day

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#97. So she will," said the Dowager. "You'll see that young man in the Cabinet before very long. Such a handsome couple on a public platform, and very sound, I'm told, about pigs, and that's so important, the British breakfast-table being what it is.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#98. This is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity ... You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#99. Katherine -I wondered if this was how Dorothy felt when she woke up in Oz with all the little people squawking ding dong, the witch is dead.

Lorraine Beaumont

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#100. I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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