Dorothy L. Sayers

“The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“ Peter! Were you looking for a horse-shoe?" "No; I was expecting the horse, but the shoe is a piece of pure,…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“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

“To obey orders in this family has been my privilege for the last twenty years--a privilege which has been an unqualified pleasure,…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Yes, and look at the corpses. Place always reminds me of that old thing in Punch, you know—‘Waiter, take away Lord Whatsisname,…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“No,” said Harriet, who had been exercising”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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

you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“When the pioneers of university training for women demanded that women should be admitted to the universities, the cry went up at…

— Dorothy L. Sayers