“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“My idea is that Miss Vane didn't do it," said Wimsey. "I dare say that's an idea which has already occurred to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“In ordinary times we get along surprisingly well, on the whole, without ever discovering what our faith really is.If, now and again,… — 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
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The fenman gazed at Wimsey with a slow pity for his bird-witted feebleness of mind.” — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the… — 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
The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“This recognition of the truth we get in the artist’s work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. I want… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“I am concerned only with the proper training of the mind to encounter and deal with the formidable mass of undigested problems… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an… — 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
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it. — 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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