Quotes from Dorothy Sayers
What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?
- Dorothy Sayers
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.
- Dorothy Sayers
There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.
- Dorothy Sayers
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 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 Sayers
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.
- Dorothy Sayers
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.
- Dorothy Sayers
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.
- Dorothy Sayers
A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
- Dorothy Sayers
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
- Dorothy Sayers
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
- Dorothy Sayers
The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.
- Dorothy Sayers