Best Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes
- There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations. Any
- There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins… All
- The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it.… Bed
- Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight… All
- 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… Carpenter
- To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he… Abandon
- I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream. All
- Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something… Able
- The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one… Book
- It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before. Bed
- What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an… Acquiring
- Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous. Danger
- Very dangerous things, theories. Dangerous
- While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that… Both
- It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests… Achievement
- I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law… Admit
- You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it. Activism
- The first thing a principle does is kill somebody Doe
- What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession. Important
- There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and… Behaving
- 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… Been
- None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have… Experience
- I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. Atheist
- I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home. Come Home
- Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. Advanced
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