Top 23 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

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.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

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.

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.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

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.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

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.