Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains? — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for… — 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
To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business.… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains? — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a… — 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
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought… — 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
The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
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 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
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