What do we find God doing about this business of sin and evil?...God d — Dorothy L. Sayers

"The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realise the deadliness of principles. (Ch. 21)"

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

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

"Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him."

"Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds."

"The Churchs approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables. Church by all means, and decent forms of amusement, certainly—but what use is all that if in the very center of his life and occupation he is insulting God with bad carpentry? No crooked table legs or ill-fitting drawers ever came out of the carpenters shop at Nazareth. Nor, if they did, could anyone believe that they were made by the same hand that made Heaven and earth."