Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayerswas a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator, and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth13 June 1893
Dorothy L. Sayers quotes about
eye brain kind
Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.
care bones sin
I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.
weather climate england
Britain possesses no climate, only weather.
way
There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life ...
business inspiration giving
It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.
elements interpretation autobiography
the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.
artist creative way
The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.
theory dangerous dangerous-things
Very dangerous things, theories.
blow meals three
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.
advertising
Advertise, or go under.
advertising products
Advertising never sold a bad product twice.
turning-50 born-again born
One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
cat thinking fire
When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.
jobs danger dangerous
Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.