470 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

I say - I don't mind betting this is the most popular thing Campbell ever did. Nothing in life became him like the leaving of it, eh, what?

One of these days you’ll go too far, and somebody will murder you.' 'I shouldn’t be in the least surprised,' said Lord Peter, pleasantly.

I am abso-bally-lutely positive

Boil my brains!” said Lord Peter. “Boil ’em and mash ’em and serve ’em up with butter as a dish of turnips, for it’s damn well all they’re fit for! Look at me!

I have a peculiar instinct about pubs. I can find one blindfold in a pea-souper with both hands tied behind me.

Exactly. He is the Most Unlikely Person, and that is why Sherlock Holmes would suspect him at once.

Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober." Lord Peter Wimsey in Gaudy Night

The brutal fact is that in this Christian country not one person in a hundred has the faintest notion what the Church teaches about God or man or society or the person of Jesus Christ.

his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification.