Dorothy L. Sayers

Truth, poor child, was nobody's daughter. She took off her clothes and jumped in the water.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

We may argue eloquently that "honesty is the best policy." Unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

—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

The worst sin—perhaps the only sin—passion can commit, is to be joyless.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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

—Dorothy L. Sayers