470 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Well-bred English people never have imagination ...

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.

nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular ...

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

The first thing a principle does is kill somebody

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.