Dorothy L. Sayers

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Plain lies are dangerous.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Advertise, or go under.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“No,” said Harriet, who had been exercising”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Advertising never sold a bad product twice.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Placetne, magistra?" "Placet.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Very dangerous things, theories.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“to subdue one’s self to other people’s ends was dust and ashes.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“– what does old Donne say? “God knows in what part of the world every grain of every man’s dust lies”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“the promise implicit in the veiled eyes, the long, flexible mouth, the curiously vital hands.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“I always said the professional advocate was the most amoral person on the face of the earth. I'm certain of it now.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“and to know, by his ironical eyes, that he perfectly well understood the reason of her unusual meekness.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“The Duchess of Denver was pouring out coffee. This was one of her uncomfortable habits. Persons arriving late for breakfast were thereby…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“You would have to abandon the jig-saw kind of story and write a book about human beings for a change.’ ‘I’m afraid…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“The danger of speaking about life exclusively in terms of problem and solution is that we are thus tempted to overlook the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“We undermine ’em with one hand and build ’em up with the other. The vitamins we destroy in the canning, we restore…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“[I]t's difficult to make people see that what you have been taught counts for nothing, and that the only things worth having…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“When a job is undertaken from necessity, or from a grim sense of disagreeable duty, the worker is self-consciously aware of the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers