Dorothy Sayers

Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody.

The first thing a principle does is to kill somebody.--Gaudy Night

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.