I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
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
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
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience;… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
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
Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on… — 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
It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace. — 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
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
“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