470 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.