Quotes from Dorothy Sayers

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.

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

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.

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

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

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

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.