470 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.