Dorothy L. Sayers quotes

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. View quote
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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him. View quote
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I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. View quote
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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. View quote
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. View quote
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Trouble shared is trouble halved. View quote
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Bunter: My old mother always used to say, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away. View quote
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. View quote
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Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. View quote
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What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead. View quote
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If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle. View quote
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I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home. View quote
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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. View quote
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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. View quote
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Lord Peter Wimsey: I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether. View quote
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Lord Peter Wimsey: The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. View quote
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Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be. View quote
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Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death! View quote
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But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
Honoria Lucasta, Dowager Duchess of Denver: It's so much better to do things neatly and properly, even stupid things. View quote
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Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey. View quote
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What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said. View quote
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Lord Peter Wimsey: Wait a second... I'm not sure that you haven't said something useful and important. Lady Mary Wimsey: Everything I say is useful and important. View quote
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