“I assure your lordship that for the first time in my existence I regret that I have made no practical study of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Did you want to be a missionary in your youth? I did. I think most kids do some time or another, which… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. — 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
How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience;… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“From time to time complaints are made about the ringing of church bells. It seems strange that a generation which tolerates the… — 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… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant… — 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
“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
“If God made everything, did He make the Devil?' This is the kind of embarrassing question which any child can ask before… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the… — 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
the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace… — 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
“Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be… — 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
![“Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the game ... [C]lever [women] bide their time -- make themselves indispensable first, and then se font prier [=play hard to get]. Clever -- but I can't do it.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b6c/dorothy-l-sayers-738_attachment_well-well-the-prizes-all-go-to-the-women_2775601.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)
