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
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
It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why… — 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
![“What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2c5/dorothy-l-sayers-738_carpenter_what-the-church-should-be-telling-him-th_2145453.jpg)
![“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)
