For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails… — 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 subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible 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 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)
