Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him — or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.

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

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.

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

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.

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.