Zitat des Tages von Dorothy L. Sayers:
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
Very dangerous things, theories.
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.