470 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person." "That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said." "All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it." "But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

The only Christian work is good work, well done.

Don’t let the smallest chance slip by; you never know until you try.

There’s nothing you can’t prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Ah, well, as the old pagan said of the Gospels, after all, it was a long time ago, and we’ll hope it wasn’t true.

You may say you won’t interfere with another person’s soul, but you do – merely by existing. The snag about it is the practical difficulty, so to speak, of not existing.

They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are a prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.