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.

-Dorothy L. Sayers
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A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically n . . . Read more

-Dorothy L. Sayers
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.

-Dorothy L. Sayers
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Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?""So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

-Dorothy L. Sayers
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Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

-Dorothy L. Sayers
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In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that . . . Read more

-Dorothy L. Sayers
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

-Dorothy L. Sayers
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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 n . . . Read more

-Dorothy L. Sayers