Author: Dorothy L. Sayers

Cites

• George J. Whyte-Melville (1)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "And here's to the hound With his nose unto the ground -- --"
    FROM: Drink, Puppy, Drink, (1874), Song, UK
• Charles Dickens (1)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Other things are all very well in their way, but give me Blood.... We say, 'There it is! that's Blood!' It is an actual matter of fact. We point it out. It admits of no doubt.... We must have Blood, you know."
    FROM: David Copperfield, (1850), Novel, UK
• Arthur Sullivan (1)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "I think it was the cat."
    FROM: H.M.S Pinafore, (1878), Opera, UK
• Lady Nancy Astor (1)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "I am striving to take into public life what any man gets from his mother."
    FROM: My Two Countries, (1923), Book, UK
• NULL (4)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Drunk as a lord? As a class they are really very sober."
    FROM: Judge Cluer, (None), NULL, NULL
• Dorothy L. Sayers (1)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "A man was taken to the Zoo and shown the giraffe. After gazing at it a little in silence: 'I dont believe it,' he said."
    FROM: Clouds of Witness, (1926), Author, UK
• Ernest Bramah (2)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "When actually in the embrace of a voracious and powerful wild animal, the desirability of leaving a limb is not a matter to be subjected to length consideration."
    FROM: The Wallet of Kai-Lung, (1900), Book, UK
• John Donne (1)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "And his short minute, after noon, is night"
    FROM: A Lecture upon the Shadow, (1896), Poem, UK
• Arthur Conan Doyle (1)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "That one word, my dear Watson, should have told me the whole story, had I been the ideal reasoner which you are so fond of depicting."
    FROM: Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, (1893), Book, UK
• Antoine François Prévost (1)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Je connaissais Manon: porquoi m'affiger tant d'un malheur que j'avais dû prévoir."
    FROM: Manon Lescaut, (1731), Novel, France

Cited by

• Jo Walton (1)
  • IN: Ha'penny (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "When I was a lad," replied the foreman, "young ladies was young ladies. And young gentleman was young gentlemen. If you got my meaning." "What this country wants," said Padgett, "is a 'Itler."
    FROM: Gaudy Night, (1935), Novel, UK
• Dorothy L. Sayers (1)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "A man was taken to the Zoo and shown the giraffe. After gazing at it a little in silence: 'I dont believe it,' he said."
    FROM: Clouds of Witness, (1926), Author, UK