Quotes from Dorothy L. Sayers

W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

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

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.

On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

Very dangerous things, theories.

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.

I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.

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.

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

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

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.

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.