470 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

She was a long-necked, long-backed woman, who disciplined her hair and her children. She was never embarrassed, and her anger, though never permitted to be visible, made itself felt the more.

I’ll tell you why, Mr. Pomfret. Because you haven’t the guts to say No when somebody asks you to be a sport. That tom-fool word has got more people in trouble than all the rest of the dictionary put together. If it’s sporting to encourage girls to break rules and drink more than they can carry and get themselves into a mess on your account, then I’d stop being a sport and try being a gentleman.

May I express the hope that the present union may happily exemplify that which we find in a first-class port – strength of body fortified by a first-class spirit and mellowing through many years to a noble maturity. My lord and my lady – your very good health!

I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night’s Dream.

In art, the Trinity is expressed in the Creative Idea, the Creative Energy, and the Creative Power – the first imagining of the work, then the making incarnate of the work, and third the meaning of the work.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper.

It is always reasonably easy to get conversation going in a pub, and it will be a black day for detectives when beer is abolished. After.

To know one’s own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

You don’t need an argument for buying butter. It’s a natural, human instinct.