The Documents in the Case Quotes

“Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Documents in the Case

“Gestures which delight in the right person are so indecent when performed by the wrong. In fact, it is only when we contemplate the loves of unpleasant people that we see the indecency of passion.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Documents in the Case

“What devilish things we do when we try to be clever.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Documents in the Case

“How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Documents in the Case

“Unfortunately, the sinner isn't always the victim."

"Why should it be?" said Mathews. "Nature does not work by a scheme of poetical justice."

"Nor does God," said Perry. "We suffer for one another, as, indeed, we must, being all members one of another. Can you separate the child from the father, the man from the brute, or even the man from the vegetable cell...?”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Documents in the Case