“Nobody minds coarseness, but one must draw the line at cruelty.”
— Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy L. Sayers, “Lord Peter Views the Body” (via quietflorilegium)
Words to live by.
Tag: dorothy sayers
a person from 150 years ago would be terrified by modern stuff . however , a duck from 150 years ago would just be all like ,still got lakes? yes ? okay cool
“How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night (1935)
Reblogging again because I thought they changed the quote so I decided to look up the actual quote and it’s not fake that is very much the actual quote