Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

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• For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this…
• He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
• If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
• She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
• To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
• The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man;…
• First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
• A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for…
• The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
• If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
• The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he…
• The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can…
• And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you -…
• What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?
• I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.
• The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a…
• God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely…
• Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you…
• In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know…
• Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead…

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