What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains? — 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
Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point… — 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
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
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
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
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
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious… — 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
the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise… — 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
![“[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human…” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/748/dorothy-l-sayers-738_aspect_t-he-more-clamour-we-make-about-the-wome_2585409.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)
