Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
"He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain."
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"He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain."
"تذكر قوله لعمه (بيقين راسخ، أحرى به أن يصدر عن فتى غض): "من المؤكد أنه يمكن للمرء أن يحب بعقله كما يحب بقلبه." فأجابه السيد ديلاغاردي بجفاف: "لا ريب؛ شريطة ألا ينتهي بك المطاف إلى التفكير بأحشائك عوضاً عن دماغك."
Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
"Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it."
"يا سماء أنقذينا، ما الشاعر؟ كائن لا يستطيع الخلود إلى النوم دون أن يصوغ أغنية عن ذلك."
Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
"in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite."
"في الأذرع المتشابكة لباخوس وأفروديت."
Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
"For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have."
"بحق الله، دعنا نأخذ كلمة "التملك" ونضع طوبة حول عنقها ثم نغرقها... لا يمكننا أن نتملك بعضنا البعض. لا يسعنا إلا أن نمنح ونخاطر بكل ما نملك."
Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
"She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra."
"تأملت أنها لا بد وأن تكون مفتونة ببيتر تمامًا، إذا كان ضحكه قادرًا على تقديس نبتة الأسبيدسترا."
Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
"But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds."
Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
"How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant."
Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
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