--- title: "22 Ifs Quotes By Dorothy L. Sayers" description: "22 Ifs quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers. Plus more from Dorothy L. Sayers and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa0/dorothy-l-sayers-738_enjoyment_if-you-want-your-own-way-god-will-let-yo_1661028.jpg" --- > [If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/if-you-want-your-own-way-god-will-let-you-have-it-hell-is-the/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa0/dorothy-l-sayers-738_enjoyment_if-you-want-your-own-way-god-will-let-yo_1661028.jpg) > [A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/a-passage-is-not-plain-english-still-less-is-it-good-english-if-we/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/577/dorothy-l-sayers-738_clarity_a-passage-is-not-plain-english-still-les_1062460.jpg) > [You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/you-cannot-do-good-work-if-you-take-your-mind-off-the-work-to-see-how/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1f/dorothy-l-sayers-738_activism_you-cannot-do-good-work-if-you-take-your_3190268.jpg) > [I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/i-m-getting-very-old-and-my-bones-ache-my-sins-are-deserting-me-and/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b4/dorothy-l-sayers-738_ache_i-m-getting-very-old-and-my-bones-ache-m_2897987.jpg) > [She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/she-reflected-she-must-be-completely-besotted-about-peter-if-his/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/609/dorothy-l-sayers-738_besotted_she-reflected-she-must-be-completely-bes_2638275.jpg) > [What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/what-we-make-is-more-important-than-what-we-are-particularly-if/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d6/dorothy-l-sayers-738_career_what-we-make-is-more-important-than-what_597170.jpg) > [If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/if-people-will-bring-dynamite-into-a-powder-factory-they-must-expect/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b09/dorothy-l-sayers-738_dynamite_if-people-will-bring-dynamite-into-a-pow_486725.jpg) > [But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/but-if-it-ever-occurs-to-people-to-value-the-honor-of-the-mind/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/433/dorothy-l-sayers-738_beauty_but-if-it-ever-occurs-to-people-to-value_1040740.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/you-can-give-it-a-long-name-if-you-like-but-i-m-an-old-fashioned/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/566/dorothy-l-sayers-738_book_you-can-give-it-a-long-name-if-you-like_143021.jpg) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/what-is-the-use-of-acquiring-one-s-heart-s-desire-if-one-cannot/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc7/dorothy-l-sayers-738_admiration_what-is-the-use-of-acquiring-one-s-heart_2395644.jpg) > [No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/no-share-pusher-could-vend-his-worthless-stock-if-he-could-not-count/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30a/dorothy-l-sayers-738_avarice_no-share-pusher-could-vend-his-worthless_2758781.jpg) > [The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/the-business-of-the-artist-is-not-to-escape-from-his-material-medium/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e65/dorothy-l-sayers-738_art_the-business-of-the-artist-is-not-to-esc_2444894.jpg) > [Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/well-it-seems-like-a-miracle-to-be-able-to-look-forward-to-to-see-all/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc4/dorothy-l-sayers-738_able_well-it-seems-like-a-miracle-to-be-able_244103.jpg) > [The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/the-dogma-of-the-incarnation-is-the-most-dramatic-thing-about/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc8/dorothy-l-sayers-738_bewilderment_the-dogma-of-the-incarnation-is-the-most_2696349.jpg) > [Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/birth-is-beastly-and-death-and-digestion-if-it-comes-to-that/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/402/dorothy-l-sayers-738_beastly_birth-is-beastly-and-death-and-digestion_2632159.jpg) > [It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/it-seems-to-me-quite-disastrous-that-the-idea-should-have-got-about/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/675/dorothy-l-sayers-738_achievement_it-seems-to-me-quite-disastrous-that-the_2867125.jpg) > [If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/if-we-did-not-know-all-his-retorts-by-heart-if-we-had-not-taken-the/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6c/dorothy-l-sayers-738_accents_if-we-did-not-know-all-his-retorts-by-he_195119.jpg) > [The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/the-christian-faith-is-the-most-exciting-drama-that-ever-staggered/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61e/dorothy-l-sayers-738_action_the-christian-faith-is-the-most-exciting_2234888.jpg) > [Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/fantasy-works-inwards-upon-its-author-blurring-the-boundary-between/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/973/dorothy-l-sayers-738_art_fantasy-works-inwards-upon-its-author-bl_1057234.jpg) > [There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/there-is-also-one-excellent-reason-why-the-veriest-amateur-may-feel/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/413/dorothy-l-sayers-738_contribution_there-is-also-one-excellent-reason-why-t_2800820.jpg) > [Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/do-you-solemnly-swear-never-to-conceal-a-vital-clue-from-the-reader/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbf/dorothy-l-sayers-738_books_do-you-solemnly-swear-never-to-conceal-a_383532.jpg) > [Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/passion-s-a-good-stupid-horse-that-will-pull-the-plough-six-days-a/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ede/dorothy-l-sayers-738_awkward_passion-s-a-good-stupid-horse-that-will_782302.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Dorothy L. Sayers > [“The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/the-really-essential-factors-of-success-in-any-undertaking-are-money/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/the-trouble-is-that-everybody-sneers-at-restrictions-and-demands/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [“ Peter! Were you looking for a horse-shoe?" "No; I was expecting the horse, but the shoe is a piece of pure, gorgeous luck."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/peter-were-you-looking-for-a-horse-shoe-no-i-was-expecting-the-horse/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [ “See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. \[That\] the fundamental treason to the mind ...… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/see-that-the-mind-is-honest-first-the-rest-may-follow-or-not-as-god/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/but-it-is-the-mark-of-all-movements-however-well-intentioned-that/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/we-may-argue-eloquently-that-honesty-is-the-best-policy-unfortunately/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/one-must-not-only-die-daily-but-every-day-we-must-be-born-again/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [“By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/by-teaching-them-all-to-read-we-have-left-them-at-the-mercy-of-the/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [ Perhaps \[the critics are right and\] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/perhaps-the-critics-are-right-and-the-drama-is-played-out-now-and/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/at-no-point-have-i-yet-found-artistic-truth-and-theological-truth-at/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/i-have-never-yet-heard-any-middle-aged-man-or-woman-who-worked-with/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [“That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood had changed since the early…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/that-was-the-second-time-within-five-minutes-that-he-had-warned-her/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [“To obey orders in this family has been my privilege for the last twenty years--a privilege which has been an unqualified pleasure, except perhaps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/to-obey-orders-in-this-family-has-been-my-privilege-for-the-last/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/those-who-make-some-other-person-their-job-are-dangerous/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [“Yes, and look at the corpses. Place always reminds me of that old thing in Punch, you know—‘Waiter, take away Lord Whatsisname, he’s been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/yes-and-look-at-the-corpses-place-always-reminds-me-of-that-old-thing/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/dorothy-l-sayers/#itemlist", "name": "22 Ifs Quotes By Dorothy L. Sayers", "numberOfItems": 22, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dorothy L. 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