--- title: "11 Should Quotes By Dorothy L. Sayers" description: "11 Should quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers. Plus more from Dorothy L. Sayers and more Should sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c5/dorothy-l-sayers-738_carpenter_what-the-church-should-be-telling-him-th_2145453.jpg" --- > [ What the Church should be telling him \[the carpenter\] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/what-the-church-should-be-telling-him-the-carpenter-is-this-that-the/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c5/dorothy-l-sayers-738_carpenter_what-the-church-should-be-telling-him-th_2145453.jpg) > [Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/lawyers-enjoy-a-little-mystery-you-know-why-if-everybody-came-forward/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cc/dorothy-l-sayers-738_enjoy_lawyers-enjoy-a-little-mystery-you-know_3099235.jpg) > [I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/i-can-t-think-why-fancy-religions-should-have-such-a-ghastly-effect/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/369/dorothy-l-sayers-738_fancy_i-can-t-think-why-fancy-religions-should_928541.jpg) > [Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/everybody-is-i-suppose-either-classic-or-gothic-by-nature-either-you/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81e/dorothy-l-sayers-738_bones_everybody-is-i-suppose-either-classic-or_1960601.jpg) > [ \[O\]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/o-ne-can-scarcely-be-frightened-off-writing-what-one-wants-to-write/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d66/dorothy-l-sayers-738_accounts_o-ne-can-scarcely-be-frightened-off-writ_2542694.jpg) > [Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/work-is-not-primarily-a-thing-one-does-to-live-but-the-thing-one/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/383/dorothy-l-sayers-738_doe_work-is-not-primarily-a-thing-one-does-t_2957416.jpg) > [I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/i-know-what-you-re-thinking-that-anybody-with-proper-sensitive/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/402/dorothy-l-sayers-738_detectives_i-know-what-you-re-thinking-that-anybody_135079.jpg) > [Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/detective-stories-keep-alive-a-view-of-the-world-which-ought-to-be/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02b/dorothy-l-sayers-738_alive_detective-stories-keep-alive-a-view-of-t_620210.jpg) > [It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/it-s-disquieting-to-reflect-that-one-s-dreams-never-symbolize-one-s/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b43/dorothy-l-sayers-738_dentist_it-s-disquieting-to-reflect-that-one-s-d_1720371.jpg) > [If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/if-we-did-not-know-all-his-retorts-by-heart-if-we-had-not-taken-the/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6c/dorothy-l-sayers-738_accents_if-we-did-not-know-all-his-retorts-by-he_195119.jpg) > [It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/it-seems-to-me-quite-disastrous-that-the-idea-should-have-got-about/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/675/dorothy-l-sayers-738_achievement_it-seems-to-me-quite-disastrous-that-the_2867125.jpg) ## Other authors on Should ## More by Dorothy L. Sayers > [“The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/the-really-essential-factors-of-success-in-any-undertaking-are-money/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/the-trouble-is-that-everybody-sneers-at-restrictions-and-demands/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [“ Peter! Were you looking for a horse-shoe?" "No; I was expecting the horse, but the shoe is a piece of pure, gorgeous luck."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/peter-were-you-looking-for-a-horse-shoe-no-i-was-expecting-the-horse/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [ “See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. \[That\] the fundamental treason to the mind ...… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/see-that-the-mind-is-honest-first-the-rest-may-follow-or-not-as-god/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/but-it-is-the-mark-of-all-movements-however-well-intentioned-that/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/we-may-argue-eloquently-that-honesty-is-the-best-policy-unfortunately/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/one-must-not-only-die-daily-but-every-day-we-must-be-born-again/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [“By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/by-teaching-them-all-to-read-we-have-left-them-at-the-mercy-of-the/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [ Perhaps \[the critics are right and\] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/perhaps-the-critics-are-right-and-the-drama-is-played-out-now-and/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/at-no-point-have-i-yet-found-artistic-truth-and-theological-truth-at/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/i-have-never-yet-heard-any-middle-aged-man-or-woman-who-worked-with/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [“That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood had changed since the early…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/that-was-the-second-time-within-five-minutes-that-he-had-warned-her/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [“To obey orders in this family has been my privilege for the last twenty years--a privilege which has been an unqualified pleasure, except perhaps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/to-obey-orders-in-this-family-has-been-my-privilege-for-the-last/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/those-who-make-some-other-person-their-job-are-dangerous/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) > [“Yes, and look at the corpses. Place always reminds me of that old thing in Punch, you know—‘Waiter, take away Lord Whatsisname, he’s been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/yes-and-look-at-the-corpses-place-always-reminds-me-of-that-old-thing/) [Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/should/dorothy-l-sayers/#itemlist", "name": "11 Should Quotes By Dorothy L. Sayers", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dorothy L. 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