470 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may." "I will give the footman orders to admit you," said the prisoner, gravely, "you will always find me at home.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.