Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Very dangerous things, theories.”

“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.”

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

“Trouble shared is trouble halved.”