Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me."" People have been wrongly condemned before now."" Exactly; simply because I wasn't there."" I never thought of that.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Do you know how to pick a lock?"" Not in the least, I'm afraid."" I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.

— 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

Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and 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

Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody.

— 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't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the honesty and the courage to take His own medicine. Whatever game He is playing with His creation, He has kept His own rules and played fair. He can exact nothing from man that He has not exacted from Himself. He has Himself gone through the whole of human experience, from the trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair and death. When He was a man, He played the man. He was born in poverty and died in disgrace and thought it well worthwhile.

— Dorothy L. Sayers