Dorothy L. Sayers

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience. ”

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. ”

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. ”

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. ”

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. ”

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. ”

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama. ”

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him. ”

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. ”

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. ”