The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.
Dorothy L. SayersShe reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
Dorothy L. SayersIt is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.
Dorothy L. SayersIt's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.
Dorothy L. SayersIf we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.
Dorothy L. Sayers