Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mother, Book, Writing

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.408, Open Road Media

• The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Giving Money, People, Church

• It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Business, Inspiration, Giving

• For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Giving, Hazards, Sake

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.392, Open Road Media

• Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person." "That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said." "All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it." "But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Emotional, Games, Play

• I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jobs, Thinking, Hands

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2011). “The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?”, p.53, Peschel Press

• 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

  Giving, Diversity, Devil

• It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may." "I will give the footman orders to admit you," said the prisoner, gravely, "you will always find me at home.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Love, Cheer, Home

  DOROTHY L. SAYERS (1963). “STRONG POISON”

• 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

  Giving, Generations, Citizens

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.16, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Running, Horse, Stupid

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.513, Open Road Media

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