470 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?'... He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

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.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.