Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "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."

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Very dangerous things, theories.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

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

(One character on another:)

"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the who...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

It is the sin that believes in nothing,
cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interfere...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going i...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they ge...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

As I grow older and older
And totter towards the tomb,
I find I care less and less
Who goes...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer sh...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave '...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Do you know how to pick a lock?"
"Not in the least, I'm afraid."
"I often wonder what we g...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon profess...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

There's something hypnotic about the word tea.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

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

"Well...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

I do know the worst sin--perhaps the only sin--passion can commit, is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always somethin...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the charact...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people'...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling bac...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Placetne, magistra?"

"Placet.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of hi...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the t...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

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

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

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

Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"

"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am se...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by a...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

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

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are bot...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in not...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

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

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insistin...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man)...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and st...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearm...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 Contempt of material things as such is, in fa...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Few things are more striking than the change which has taken place during my own lifetime in the att...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrs...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

"The Kingdom of Heaven", said the Lord Christ, "is among you." But what, precisely, is the Kingdom o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Feast of Thomas the Apostle Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new mo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Continuing a short series on sin: Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

The first thing a principle does is kill somebody
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

And by the way, my dear,' he said, 'you might just mention to Mrs. Sutton that if she must read the ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had neve...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Perhaps we are not following Christ all the way or in the right spirit. We are likely, for example, ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

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

I love you- I am at rest with you- I have come home.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenth...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and lea...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Those who make some other person their job . . . are dangerous.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in noth...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated—yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the mos...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Why do you want a letter from me? Why don't you take the trouble to find out for yourselves what Chr...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much las...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and wha...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

I love you - I am at rest with you- I have come home.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Work is not primarily a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is or it should be...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

The two men sat silent for a little, and then Lord Peter said:

"D'you like your job?" DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

You may say you won’t interfere with another person’s soul, but you do—merely by existing. The...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Harriet had long ago discovered that one could not like people any the better, merely because they w...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

I always said the professional advocate was the most amoral person on the face of the earth. I'm cer...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

[On marriage and permanent attachment:]

Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

It's very good of you--"

"No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I d...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting t...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

How should anything be sacred to an advertiser?" demanded Ingleby, helping himself to four lumps of ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

There, eastward, within a stone’s throw, stood the twin towers of All Souls, fantastic, unreal as ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

The mellow bells, soaring and singing in tower and steeple, told of time's flight through an eternit...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

The people who are most discouraged and made despondent by the barbarity and stupidity of human beha...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;
If we perish in the seeking, why, ho...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, c...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of c...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Experience has taught me," said Peter (...) "that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he shou...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

The boat rocked perilously as they heaved and tore at the clinging weeds, razor-sharp and strong as ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Peter—do please be happy. I mean, you’ve always been the comfortable sort of person that nothing...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

I say--I've thought of a good plot for a detective story."
"Really?"
"Top--hole. You know,...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

My idea is that Miss Vane didn't do it," said Wimsey. "I dare say that's an idea which has already o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS

I love Brian Piccolo, and I'd like all of you to love him. When you hit your knees to pray tonight, ...
GALE SAYERS

I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ...
GALE SAYERS

There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reas...
GALE SAYERS

Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
GALE SAYERS

We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There ar...
GALE SAYERS

Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
GALE SAYERS

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
GALE SAYERS

What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of t...
GALE SAYERS

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
GALE SAYERS

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Ira...
GALE SAYERS

I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remem...
GALE SAYERS

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will...
GALE SAYERS

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
GALE SAYERS

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
GALE SAYERS

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
GALE SAYERS

Transfer of title has been completed, the Island corridor is now Island-owned and it's connecting co...
JUDITH SAYERS

Half these people out here who are getting autographs are getting it for somebody else -- a dealer o...
GALE SAYERS

He says he won't sign anything because he knows what they're doing with the stuff, and I don't disag...
GALE SAYERS

Tomorrow, you might see a passing shower around the midday.
MATT SAYERS

I'm 62 years old. You can't tell me that some little kid coming up to me -- he doesn't know me. Thes...
GALE SAYERS

Both Ray and I are racing fans. Also, we both have the same goals and desire to succeed, to win and ...
GALE SAYERS

There's no way I would have made the Hall of Fame or set any of the records I did by myself. No matt...
GALE SAYERS

It's all about possibilities. Now that we're re-connected, it also gives us an incentive to build co...
JUDITH SAYERS

There is a great deal of potential, but there are also a few challenges for any potential operator. ...
JUDITH SAYERS

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but th...
JUDITH SAYERS

The next five years will be very exciting. We have a lot of vibrant people in the neighborhood wanti...
JENNIFER SAYERS

There's been a fabulous resurgence of people fixing up homes. The house values are steadily increasi...
JENNIFER SAYERS

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is t...
DOROTHY DIX

Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries...
DOROTHY DUNNETT

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!
DOROTHY KILGALLEN

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it...
DOROTHY PARKER

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.

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Dorothy L. Sayers

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.

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