470 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.