Dorothy L. Sayers

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#humor #love #paper #humor

She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#lord-peter-wimsey #love #love

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#puppies #young-men #men

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#religion #religion

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

#literature #writing #propaganda

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#success #money

If anybody does marry you it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#lord-peter-wimsey #marriage #strong-poison #marriage

The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#death

The brutal fact is that in this Christian country not one person in a hundred has the faintest notion what the Church teaches about God or man or society or the person of Jesus Christ. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#religion

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

#experience