470 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

My brother, being an English gentleman, possesses a library in all his houses, though he never opens a book. This is called fidelity to ancient tradition.

It was the room of a woman without taste or moderation, who refused nothing and surrendered nothing, to whom the fact of possession had become the one steadfast reality in a world of loss and change.

February was sobbing and blustering its lachrymose way into March, when she received a letter from the Dean.

I think my mother’s talents deserve a little acknowledgement. I said so to her, as a matter of fact, and she replied in these memorable words: “My dear child, you can give it a long name if you like, but I’m an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it’s so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.

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

I always have a quotation for everything – it saves original thinking.

Something was jigging and worrying in his brain; it felt like a hive of bees, stirred up by a stick.

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

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.