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
tattoo sexy passion
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
heart people brain
What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
law littles mystery
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
political original-thought originality
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
integrity artist lasts
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
regret food eggs
I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.
christian principles becoming
That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.
reality trying structure
To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.
teaching reading mean
For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.
heart looks may
Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.
running cows faces
She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
theory dangerous dangerous-things
Very dangerous things, theories.
jesus drama world
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.
fall eye thinking
I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had eyes in ones knees, it would be a lot more practical’… ‘What luck! Here’s a deep, damp ditch on the other side, which I shall now proceed to fall into.’ A slithering crash proclaimed that he had carried out his intention.