Dorothy L. Sayers: Doing

Dorothy L. Sayers was English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
Dorothy L. Sayers: 144 quotes9 likes

“Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"

"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

“What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

“Do you know how to pick a lock?"
"Not in the least, I'm afraid."
"I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Strong Poison

Source: Strong Poison

“Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Five Red Herrings

Source: Five Red Herrings

“I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

“Lord Peter Wimsey: I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Gaudy Night

Gaudy Night (1936)

“How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Busman's Honeymoon

Source: Busman's Honeymoon

“What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?…God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.”

Dorothy L. Sayers

Essays, The Triumph of Easter (1938)
Source: The Whimsical Christian: 18 Essays

“Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.”

Dorothy L. Sayers

Source: Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

“And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you — I am at rest with you — I have come home. - Lord Peter Wimsey to Harriet Vane, now his wife”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Busman's Honeymoon

Busman's Honeymoon (1937)

“Many words have no legal meaning. Others have a legal meaning very unlike their ordinary meaning. For example, the word 'daffydown-dilly.' It is a criminal libel to call a lawyer a daffy-down-dilly. Ha! Yes, I advise you never to do such a thing. No, I certainly advise you never to do it.”

Dorothy L. Sayers

Source: The Dawson Pedigree and Lord Peter Views the Body (1938), P. 169.

“Lord Peter Wimsey: She has a sense of humor… and brains… life wouldn't be dull. One would wake up, and there would be a whole day full of jolly things to do. And then we would come home and go to bed… and that would be jolly too.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Strong Poison

Strong Poison (1930)

“Lord Peter Wimsey: It’s my belief most of us would only be too pleased to chuck these community hysterics if the beastly newspapers didn’t run it for all it’s worth. However, it won’t do to say so. (on Remembrance Day observances)”

Dorothy L. Sayers

The Unpleasantness at The Bellona Club (1928)

“Freddie Arbuthnot*: "…mild old gentlemen do sometimes break out into a spot of tut-tuttery."”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Gaudy Night

Gaudy Night (1936)