Top 23 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

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

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.