Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.

However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

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., 8 September 1935)

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or

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Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

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.

The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do""Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

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

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 is effort spent in vain.

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself

Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody.

The only Christian work is good work well done.

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!

The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere.

The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.

Do you know how to pick a lock?""Not in the least, I'm afraid.""I often wonder what we go to school for, " said Wimsey.

Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers learn it now at their mother's knee.

(One character on another:)"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?

She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite.

I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.

People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.

A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

What we make is more important than what we are particularly if making is our profession.

The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.

Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.