Dorothy L. Sayers - Truth Quotes

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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Dorothy L. Sayers
The truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it — otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.

Dorothy L. Sayers
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
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Dorothy L. Sayers
There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth — not necessarily.

Dorothy L. Sayers
At no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.

Dorothy L. Sayers
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

Dorothy L. Sayers