470 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

The only Christian work is good work, well done

... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.

I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.