18 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers about men

  • Author Dorothy L. Sayers
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    If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

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    no share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him ...

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    There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.

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    I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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