Dorothy L. Sayers World Quotations

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.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.

But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

... of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love ...