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
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
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
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
When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. — 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
. . . 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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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 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 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
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 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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