Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Love, Home, Rest

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

Thinking, Everything, Original

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Great, Truth, Nobody

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

Passion, Trying, Hectic

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

Love, God, Experience

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Time, Woman, Young

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

Care, Find, Older

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

Age, Forward, May

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

End, Story, Public

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

Minds, Themselves, Weak

Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Trouble, Shared

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Human, Become, She

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

Death, Single, Minds

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

Work, Time, Money

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
Dorothy L. Sayers

War, Down, Ground

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

Truth, Forward, 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

Hard, Enough, Away

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

Both, Language, Run

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Passion, Sin, Commit

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

Nothing, Prove, Outlook

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Job, Person, Dangerous

Very dangerous things, theories.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dangerous, 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

Time, Good, Future

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 13, 1893

Died: December 17, 1957

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