Dorothy L. Sayers Way Quotations

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

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

. . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life ...

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.