Quote

I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dorothy L. Sayers
Age: 64 †
Born: 1893
Born: June 13
Died: 1957
Died: December 17
Copywriter
Editor
Essayist
Novelist
Philologist
Playwright
Poet
Short Story Writer
Translator
Writer
Dorothy Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayers Fleming
Dorothy L Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Fleming
Night
Dream
Midsummer
Better
Fairies
Vegetables
Fairy
Bottom
Garden

More quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

Image
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward to look forward we must believe in age.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls if the answer is, But I don't, there is no more to be said.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
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
Image
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
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.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--
Dorothy L. Sayers
Image
First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
Dorothy L. Sayers