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Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

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"You are my garden of beautiful roses,
My own rose, my one rose, that's you!"

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Whose Body?

A false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Gaudy Night

And there are families that hold their heads high that wouldn't ever have existed but for some king or other taking his amusements on the wrong side of the blanket as the old saying goes.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Strong Poison

Even idiots occasionally speak the truth accidentally.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Whose Body?

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Have His Carcase
Quoted: Lord Peter Wimsey

I can't think why the Almighty should have wanted to make such a lot of the nasty little creatures – misplaced ingenuity I should call it in anybody else.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: A Presumption of Death

I think, one seldom regrets something one has done as much as one regrets what one might have done, and did not.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: A Presumption of Death
Quoted: Harriet

I wanted to see the weak protected against the strong, and stupidity is a form of weakness.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Thrones, Dominations

Matrimony ... is no more than a form of friendship recognised by the police.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Thrones, Dominations
Based on a quotation of Robert Louis Stevenson

Perhaps if the churches had had the courage to lay their emphasis where Christ laid it, we might not have come to this frame of mind in which it is assumed that the value of all work, and the value of all people, is to be assessed in terms of economics.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Striding Folly

The chief use of strangers is to tell things to.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Hangman's Holiday

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

The real tragedy is not the conflict of good with evil but of good with good; that means a problem with no solution.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Gaudy Night

To suppress a fact is to publish a falsehood.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Gaudy Night

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

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Busman's Honeymoon

When I kiss you, it will be an important event - one of those things which stand out among their surroundings like the first time you tasted li-chee.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Have His Carcase
Quoted: Lord Peter Wimsey

You are like the centipede, which walked perfectly until it tried to explain which leg went after which.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Thrones, Dominations

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