470 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me." "People have been wrongly condemned before now." "Exactly; simply because I wasn't there." "I never thought of that.

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Placetne, magistra?" "Placet.

I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look how popular are the men who dig up London with electric drills. Duke's son, cook's son, son of a hundred kings, people will stand there for hours on end, ear drums splitting. Why? Simply for the pleasure of being idle while watching other people work.

The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

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.