Dorothy L. Sayers: Quotes about people

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

“Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

“We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.”

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

“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

“If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

“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

“People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.”

Dorothy L. Sayers

Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

“To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

“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

Essays, The Other Six Deadly Sins (1941)