Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

Most popular Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

Sex is every man's loco spot. - Dorothy L. Sayers quote.
Sex is every man's loco spot.
— Dorothy L. Sayers Whose Body?

sex

Trouble shared is trouble halved. - Dorothy L. Sayers quote.
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
— Dorothy L. Sayers The Five Red Herrings

trouble

The first thing a principle does is to kill somebody. - Dorothy L. Sayers quote.
The first thing a principle does is to kill somebody.
— Dorothy L. Sayers Gaudy Night

principles

The worst sin—perhaps the only sin—passion can commit, is to be joyless. - Dorothy L. Sayers quote.
The worst sin—perhaps the only sin—passion can commit, is to be joyless.
— Dorothy L. Sayers Gaudy Night

passion

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. - Dorothy L. Sayers quote.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
— Dorothy L. Sayers Clouds of Witness

old age

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person. - Dorothy L. Sayers quote.
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
— Dorothy L. Sayers Unpopular Opinions

individuality

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows.  If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.  She is a very courageous woman, my lord. - Dorothy L. Sayers quote.
She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows.  If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.  She is a very courageous woman, my lord.
— Dorothy L. Sayers Clouds of Witness

facts

Books...are like lobster shells. We surround ourselves with 'em, and then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidences of our earlier stages of development. - Dorothy L. Sayers quote.
Books...are like lobster shells. We surround ourselves with 'em, and then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidences of our earlier stages of development.
— Dorothy L. Sayers The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

books