Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it. Dorothy L. Sayers More Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers More Quotes From Dorothy L. Sayers As I grow older and older, Dorothy L. Sayers bedcarememorable If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions. Dorothy L. Sayers powderfactoriespeople It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash. Dorothy L. Sayers achievementshould-haveideas Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. Dorothy L. Sayers agebelievelooks Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them. Dorothy L. Sayers literaturecivilizationknowledge Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up. Dorothy L. Sayers trippingbehindsmen A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. Dorothy L. Sayers nuisanceoccupationworld I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them. Dorothy L. Sayers differencesnumberspeople I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home. Dorothy L. Sayers i-love-youhomehappiness I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. Dorothy L. Sayers atheistworkthinking The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment. Dorothy L. Sayers mindmenpeople To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money. Dorothy L. Sayers making-moneygrievancemen you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes. Dorothy L. Sayers motherwritingbook He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin. Dorothy L. Sayers safety-pinsusedsarcastic How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. Dorothy L. Sayers fleetingduckspassion I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look how popular are the men who dig up London with electric drills. Duke's son, cook's son, son of a hundred kings, people will stand there for hours on end, ear drums splitting. Why? Simply for the pleasure of being idle while watching other people work. Dorothy L. Sayers kingsjobsson 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 masteryvocabularymind 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. Dorothy L. Sayers endshomelove [T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. Dorothy L. Sayers viewsjobsthinking Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste. Dorothy L. Sayers squirrelsworkthinking
