Quotes from Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

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.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

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.

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

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha