... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Is not the great defect of our education today—a defect traceable through all the disquieting symptoms of trouble that I have mentioned—that… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The art of change-ringing is peculiar to the English, and, like most English peculiarities, unintelligible to the rest of the world. (The… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“This recognition of the truth we get in the artist’s work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. I want… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“There are large and stately studios, panelled and high, in strong stone houses filled with gleaming brass and polished oak. There are… — 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 Image
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 Image
“ 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
![“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c74/dorothy-l-sayers-738_academia_see-that-the-mind-is-honest-first-the-re_16293.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/467/dorothy-l-sayers-738_buried_perhaps-the-critics-are-right-and-the-dr_43252.jpg)
