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
discipline demand annoying
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.
heart laughing world
We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
law crime
There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.
sarcastic safety-pins spine
He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
mistake believe firsts
First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
marriage independent two
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
secret asking secrecy
A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.
self dust sea
To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.
passion atmosphere trying
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
truth believe advantage
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
morning blessed food
What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?
christian done good-work
The only Christian work is good work, well done
hands found fortnight
She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.
hearing pleasure ifs
If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle