That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

Dorothy L. Sayers

sober drunk easy

There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learned nothing-perhaps in particular if we learned nothing-our contribution to the discussion may have a potential value.

Dorothy L. Sayers

taught reason-why teacher

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

good-work community mind

Advertise, or go under.

Dorothy L. Sayers

advertising

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

Dorothy L. Sayers

obscure want writing

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

Dorothy L. Sayers

religious war believe

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

Dorothy L. Sayers

creative artist way

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

Dorothy L. Sayers

envy success heart

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

Dorothy L. Sayers

yardsticks complaining men

It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

Dorothy L. Sayers

gentleman morning night

Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--

Dorothy L. Sayers

miracle hurt looks

Advertising never sold a bad product twice.

Dorothy L. Sayers

advertising products

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Dorothy L. Sayers

turning-50 born born-again

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

dangerous danger jobs

The first thing a principle does is kill somebody

Dorothy L. Sayers

principles doe firsts

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

Dorothy L. Sayers

profession important work

I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

Dorothy L. Sayers

law desire fun

It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may." "I will give the footman orders to admit you," said the prisoner, gravely, "you will always find me at home.

Dorothy L. Sayers

cheer home love

Placetne, magistra?" "Placet.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

Dorothy L. Sayers

community facts way