Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes
"Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Age, May, Youth)
"A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Passion, Trying)
"A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Being, Occupation, World)
"As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Bed, Care)
"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Death, Amusement, Race)
"I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Quotation, Thinking)
"I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Home, Love, Rest)
"If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: War)
"Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Truth, Lawyers, Mystery, Nothing)
"She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Cows, Facts)
"The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: English, Language, Machine, Simplicity)
"The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Truth)
"The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Passion, Sin)
"There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Possibility, End, Public, Will)
"Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Job)
"Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: English, Vocabulary, Writer)
"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Time, Force, Old, Trouble, Will, Woman)
"Trouble shared is trouble halved."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Trouble)
"Very dangerous things, theories."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Theories)
"While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Time, Evil, Future, Will, World)
"None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Experience, Love, God, People)