470 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

I dare say that’s an idea which has already occurred to you, but with the weight of my great mind behind it, no doubt it strikes the imagination more forcibly.

So I am a Socialist,” said Ingleby, “but I can’t stand this stuff about Old Dumbletonians. If everybody had the same State education, these things wouldn’t happen.” “If everybody had the same face,” said Bredon, “there’d be no pretty women.

Bother the right man!” cried Miss Findlater, crossly. “I do hate that kind of talk. It makes one feel dreadful – like a prize cow or something. Surely, we have got beyond that point of view in these days.

What is the use of acquiring one’s heart’s desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one’s friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

Our speculations about Shakespeare are almost as multifarious and foolish as our speculations about the maker of the universe, and, like those, are frequently concerned to establish that his works were not made by him but by another person of the same name.

What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what’s the world coming to, eh?

The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated – yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the most difficult of all human beings to analyze. You scarcely knew they were there, until – bang! Something quite unexpected blew up like a depth charge and left you marveling, to collect strange floating debris.

Harriet had long ago discovered that one could not like people any the better, merely because they were ill, or dead – still less because one had once liked them very much.

I know what you’re thinking – that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don’t see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.