I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them. Dorothy L. Sayers More Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers More Quotes From Dorothy L. Sayers Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. Dorothy L. Sayers reading book lobster There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited. Dorothy L. Sayers outlook prove ifs But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious. Dorothy L. Sayers pioneers movement sight God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely blot out the evil past but in the most literal sense "makes it good." Dorothy L. Sayers inspiration faith past Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again. Dorothy L. Sayers turning-50 birthday children She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away. Dorothy L. Sayers cows running looks There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks. Dorothy L. Sayers detectives stories doe 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 amusement race mind Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him. Dorothy L. Sayers money men people 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 hype writing running make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression. Dorothy L. Sayers expression stories mistake whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed. Dorothy L. Sayers born murder way It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for. Dorothy L. Sayers impossible believe needs 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. Dorothy L. Sayers honesty sake may there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune. Dorothy L. Sayers irritating luck fortune Britain possesses no climate, only weather. Dorothy L. Sayers climate england weather Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular. Dorothy L. Sayers vulgar letters firsts Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize. Dorothy L. Sayers men boys believe Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know. Dorothy L. Sayers attractive fancy mean How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant. Dorothy L. Sayers poet taken firsts
