Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

2. If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort. Gaudy Night

3. Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person.""That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said.""All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it.""But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace. Have His Carcase

4. The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize 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. Gaudy Night

5. The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second. Whose Body?

6. How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do""Except to teach me for the first time what they meant. Busman's Honeymoon

7. The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize 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. Gaudy Night