Dorothy L. Sayers
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.Collection: Truth
I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.Collection: Home
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.Collection: Men
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.Collection: Imagination
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.Collection: Experience
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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.
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium.
Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
Very dangerous things, theories.
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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.
There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
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.
She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
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.
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.
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.Collection: Life
Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.Collection: Spiritual
If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.Collection: Life Changing
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.Collection: Educational
God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.Collection: Jesus
Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.Collection: Creativity
The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.Collection: Confused
It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.Collection: Christian
God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely blot out the evil past but in the most literal sense "makes it good."Collection: Faith
To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.Collection: Hallmark
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.Collection: Order
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.Collection: Jesus
The only Christian work is good work, well doneCollection: Christian
What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.Collection: Jesus
the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.Collection: Media
For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.Collection: Teaching
It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.Collection: People
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?'... He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.Collection: Christian
Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.Collection: Jesus
If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.Collection: Men
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.Collection: Discipline
We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.Collection: Work
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.Collection: Artistic
I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.Collection: Care
What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?Collection: Morning
Advertising never sold a bad product twice.Collection: Advertising