Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him. Dorothy L. Sayers More Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers More Quotes From Dorothy L. Sayers Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally. Dorothy L. Sayers speak-the-truth idiot speak To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence. Dorothy L. Sayers hallmark competence knows Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living. Dorothy L. Sayers views justice fun Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death! Dorothy L. Sayers rewards gains dragons There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath. Dorothy L. Sayers foam ordinary people First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it. Dorothy L. Sayers faith mistake believe The only Christian work is good work, well done Dorothy L. Sayers work-well-done good-work christian The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom. Dorothy L. Sayers bully perfect art the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it. Dorothy L. Sayers public-opinion journalism media I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it. Dorothy L. Sayers law mean people Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be. Dorothy L. Sayers heart may looks Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame. Dorothy L. Sayers party war thinking If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle Dorothy L. Sayers hearing pleasure ifs I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon. Dorothy L. Sayers eggs regret food The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written. Dorothy L. Sayers impossible writing book [W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble. Dorothy L. Sayers rotten use men The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ. Dorothy L. Sayers giving-money church people To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. Dorothy L. Sayers depth artist integrity The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. Dorothy L. Sayers greatness truth believe Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation. Dorothy L. Sayers spots disappointment sex
