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 More Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers More Quotes From Dorothy L. Sayers A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means. Dorothy L. Sayers plain-english clarity mean There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood. Dorothy L. Sayers benches rose blood I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had eyes in ones knees, it would be a lot more practical’… ‘What luck! Here’s a deep, damp ditch on the other side, which I shall now proceed to fall into.’ A slithering crash proclaimed that he had carried out his intention. Dorothy L. Sayers eye fall thinking You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched. Dorothy L. Sayers hurt blow mean this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also. Dorothy L. Sayers diversity devil giving Plain lies are dangerous. Dorothy L. Sayers dangerous lying We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us. Dorothy L. Sayers importance knows But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training. Dorothy L. Sayers training understanding believe I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands. Dorothy L. Sayers jobs hands thinking And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with his daily life and thought. Dorothy L. Sayers expression average men And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime. Dorothy L. Sayers silence sound night We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking. Dorothy L. Sayers movement spirit looks There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us. Dorothy L. Sayers life-death solutions Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world. Dorothy L. Sayers beautiful jobs men 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 horse stupid running It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid. Dorothy L. Sayers valentine-love valentines-day valentines-day However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance? Dorothy L. Sayers wander garden mind There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily. Dorothy L. Sayers whole truth knows We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood. Dorothy L. Sayers work profound mean It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it. Dorothy L. Sayers jobs men order
