Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

I would rather be stupid than pretend to be intelligent.

We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

There is a deep power in words that speak the truth

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.

Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

There is a big disincentive to talk about the truth. I will speak the truth.

While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.