How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point… — 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
“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
![“[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human…” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/748/dorothy-l-sayers-738_aspect_t-he-more-clamour-we-make-about-the-wome_2585409.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)
