470 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

I can’t think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one’s grammar. It’s a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I’m afraid.

We’ve got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

There’s something hypnotic about the word tea.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven’t got any of your own.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one’s own limitations.

The artist’s knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

I set out in a lordly manner to offer you heaven and earth. I find that all I have to give you is Oxford – which is yours already.

I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home.

The glass-blower’s cat is bompstable,” said Mr. Parker aloud and distinctly.