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
community way facts
There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.
kings forever honor
Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.
letters firsts vulgar
nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular ...
race mind amusement
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
trouble
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
social-values kind limitation
There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.
uncles heart men
He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.
emotional games play
Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person." "That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said." "All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it." "But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.
thinking people said
Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me." "People have been wrongly condemned before now." "Exactly; simply because I wasn't there." "I never thought of that.
issues labyrinth world
But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues
taken firsts poet
How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.
laughter peter ifs
She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
double-bass sculpture baggage
It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.
parent sloth sin
There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.