I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look… — 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 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
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
“Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to… — 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