Dorothy L. Sayers

“What is the heart of a man, that it may be so touched and so broken?”

“The only Christian work is good work well done.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“The dogma is the drama.”

“How can anyone be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

“It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“A society in which the chief incentive is gross materialism is a sick society.”

“To do a job simply because it is prescribed is the essence of slavery.”

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

“The great weakness of the Pagan world was that it knew only of gods and not of God.”

“It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.”

“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.”

“Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which it is exercised.”