Quotes from Dorothy L. Sayers

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.

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.

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.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

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

Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

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

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.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

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.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

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

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

there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

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

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.