Quotes by : Dorothy L. Sayers

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule,....

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of....

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man....

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job....

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

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

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is....

I suppose one oughtn’t to marry anybody, unless one’s prepared to make him a full-time job.”“Probably....

She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.....

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing,....