Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

Dorothy L. Sayers (25)

Birth:	13th June, 1893
Death:	17th December, 1957
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Essayist, Humanist, Novelist, Poet, Translator, Playwriter

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• If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Topics in Truth

• This is the weakness of most ‘edifying’ or ‘propaganda’ literature. There is no diversity…You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

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• 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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Topics in Life, Work

• 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 mingled pattern.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• Very dangerous things, theories.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• 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 their weak minds.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

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

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• There’s nothing you can’t prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• 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 run up in half an hour with a machine.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• 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 to learn by experience.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• 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 out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• I always have a quotation for everything – it saves original thinking.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

  Dorothy L. Sayers