Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

British - Author | June 13, 1893 - December 17, 1957

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

LoveHomeI Love YouRomanticI Am

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

TruthGreatTruth IsNobodyTelling

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Dorothy L. Sayers

ThinkingQuotationAlwaysEverything

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 L. Sayers

LoveGodTrue LoveExperiencePeople

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

TimeWomanTroubleYoungWillOld

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.

Dorothy L. Sayers

JusticePersonalityPeopleThought

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

Dorothy L. Sayers

DeathRaceMindsSingleGreater

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

FaithImaginationManChristianMost

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.

Dorothy L. Sayers

SimplicityLanguageYouKindRunUp

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

PassionSinOnlyCommit

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Dorothy L. Sayers

JobDangerousPersonMakeWhoSome

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.

Dorothy L. Sayers

MindsWeakVocabularyMasteryOnly

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