Dorothy L. Sayers

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

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.

As I grow older and older, and totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

Who goes to bed with whom.

Sex is every man’s loco spot.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

I always have a quotation for everything—it saves original thinking.