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.

Quote by Dorothy L Sayers

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While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both...

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both...

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of...

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of...

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but...

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but...

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in...

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in...

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of...

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of...

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look...

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look...

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end,...

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end,...

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with...

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with...

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we...

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we...

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a...

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a...

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is...

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is...

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer...

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer...

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I...

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I...

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he...

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he...

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the...

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the...