Dorothy L. Sayers - Human Quotes

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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
There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.

Dorothy L. Sayers
It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

Dorothy L. Sayers
I say, I don't think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had eyes in ones knees, it would be a lot more practical'… 'What luck! Here's a deep, damp ditch on the other side, which I shall now proceed to fall into.' A slithering crash proclaimed that he had carried out his intention.

Dorothy L. Sayers
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

Dorothy L. Sayers
You don't need an argument for buying butter. It's a natural, human instinct. - Mr. Ingleby

Dorothy L. Sayers
There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.

Dorothy L. Sayers
There is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

Dorothy L. Sayers
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

Dorothy L. Sayers
A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama... The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?'... He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.

Dorothy L. Sayers