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“Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.”

Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

Book:The Five Red Herrings

Work

The Five Red Herrings

In this mystery novel, the protagonist navigates a complex plot filled with false clues and distractions, known as red herrings, to uncover the truth. more

Author

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers was an English writer renowned for her detective novels. Her works are celebrated for their unique literary style and profound insights into criminal psychology. Sayers' detective novels typically feature the character of Valery West, a female detective, whose stories offer not only suspenseful plots but also delve into moral and philosophical issues. more

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“the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.”

Opinion Media Presses Newspapers Journalism Officials Censorship Free Speech Public Opinion Restriction

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.”

May Moments Honesty Policy Sake Arguing Cease Adopted Honesty Is The Best Policy

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.”

Mind Interesting Personality Individuality British Variety Eccentricity Crankiness

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.”

People Has Beens Jesus Left Christ Justice Generations Personality Safe Jesus Christ Contrary Atmosphere Surround Bores Accused Shattering Tedium Dynamic Personality

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.”

Ifs Knows Should Years Heart Three Jesus Christ Brain Taken Jesus Christ Wit All Time Accents Repetition Pulpit Output Epigrams Incessant Retorts

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.”

People Jesus Christ Church Politician Jesus Christ Proletariat Fickle

Book:The Man Born to Be King: A Play-cycle on the Life of Our Loard and Saviour Jesus Christ

Source: The Man Born to Be King: A Play-cycle on the Life of Our Loard and Saviour Jesus Christ

“Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.”

Way Made Literature Knowledge Civilization Outlasting

Book:The Nine Tailors

Source: The Nine Tailors

“I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.”

People Knows Needs Mean Law Suits Clauses

Book:Unnatural Death

Source: Unnatural Death

“Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.”

Firsts Persons Letters Careful Vulgar Avoidance First Person

Book:The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death

Source: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death

“To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.”

Knows Limitation Competence Hallmark

Book:Thrones, Dominations

Source: Thrones, Dominations