DOROTHY L. SAYERS

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.

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.

Very dangerous things, theories.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

The first thing a principle does is kill somebody.

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