the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“I assure your lordship that for the first time in my existence I regret that I have made no practical study of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Did you want to be a missionary in your youth? I did. I think most kids do some time or another, which… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“From time to time complaints are made about the ringing of church bells. It seems strange that a generation which tolerates the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood had changed since… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“I am concerned only with the proper training of the mind to encounter and deal with the formidable mass of undigested problems… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“In ordinary times we get along surprisingly well, on the whole, without ever discovering what our faith really is.If, now and again,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“If God made everything, did He make the Devil?' This is the kind of embarrassing question which any child can ask before… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience;… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
“ Peter! Were you looking for a horse-shoe?" "No; I was expecting the horse, but the shoe is a piece of pure, gorgeous luck."… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
“By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
“That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood had changed since the early… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
“To obey orders in this family has been my privilege for the last twenty years--a privilege which has been an unqualified pleasure, except perhaps… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
“Yes, and look at the corpses. Place always reminds me of that old thing in Punch, you know—‘Waiter, take away Lord Whatsisname, he’s been… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
![“Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the game ... [C]lever [women] bide their time -- make themselves indispensable first, and then se font prier [=play hard to get]. Clever -- but I can't do it.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b6c/dorothy-l-sayers-738_attachment_well-well-the-prizes-all-go-to-the-women_2775601.jpg)
