Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

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.

Very dangerous things, theories.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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