“What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?”

— Dorothy L. Sayers , book Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?" by Dorothy L. Sayers?

Dorothy L. Sayers 72

English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian wr… 1893–1957

Related quotes

“I happen to think libertarian kind of encompasses hearts and brains both. And that's what we all are about.”

Gary Johnson (1953) American politician, businessman, and 29th Governor of New Mexico

2016, Interview with CNBC's John Harwood (August 22, 2016)
Context: I've been a self-declared Libertarian since 1971. What was the old saying? That if you weren't a Democrat in college, you didn't have a heart. And if you weren't a Republican in later life, you didn't have a brain. Well, I happen to think libertarian kind of encompasses hearts and brains both. And that's what we all are about.

“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

“…when two people live together, the stress flows both ways. This, I come to believe, is both the blessing and the curse of marriage. It's a blessing because there's an outlet for the everyday strains of life; it's a curse because the outlet is someone you care deeply about.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Wilson Lewis, Prologue, p. 3
2000s, The Wedding (2003)

“It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.”

Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Canadian-born American writer

“Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?”

Idries Shah book Reflections

Source: Reflections

“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“Cursed be he who e'er has put his trust
Or who henceforth shall trust in woman's heart;
False are they all, and to mankind a curse;
The plain are bad enough, the fair are worse.”

Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet

Sia maladetto chi si fidò mai,
O vuol fidarsi di donna che sia;
Che false sono e maladette tutte;
E più anche le belle che le brutte.
XXII, 49
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato