Dorothy L. Sayers Believe Quotations

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

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

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.

Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize.

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

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.