I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
. . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
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… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling… — 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
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
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 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
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
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
Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside… — 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 Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The… — 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
I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own… — 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)
