If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends,… — 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
Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in 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
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
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
She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it. — 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 is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside… — 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
No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of… — 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
![“Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come…” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fc4/dorothy-l-sayers-738_able_well-it-seems-like-a-miracle-to-be-able_244103.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)
