Quotes from Dorothy Sayers

there's nothin' like Christian feelin's for upsettin' a man's domestic comfort.

How do you do?" "How do you do?" echoed Mr. Ingleby. They gazed at one another with the faint resentment of two cats at their first meeting. Mr. Hankin smiled kindly at them both.

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalise false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

The professional interpreter is a minor miracle—far better

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

But once you've got the How, the Why drives it home.

I say, I don't think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all-fours, or had eyes in one's knees, it would be a lot more practical.

This, she felt, was her fault. Her idea in the first place. Her house. Her honeymoon. Her — and this was the incalculable factor in the thing — her husband. (A repressive word, that, when you came to think of it, compounded of a grumble and a thump.) The

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that?—I love you—I am at rest with you—I have come home.

You yourselves will be able to judge whether that is a usual and natural form of expression

What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing about him, and a great many male undergraduates turn pale and faint at the thought of him-but I, eccentric individual that I am, do want to know about Aristotle, and I submit that there is nothing in my shape or bodily functions which need prevent my knowing about him.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilisation that made them.