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
alive believes cares enjoys finds hates hell interferes lives purpose remains seeks sin
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
british-author human mankind
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
british-author goes less older toward
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
confused thinking expression
The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.
knowledge civilization way
Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.
life-changing forever want
If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
vocabulary mind syntax
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
i-love-you happiness home
I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
strong-women time uncontrollable-urge
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
atheist work thinking
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
differences numbers people
I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
christian men church
It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.
secret
That there is a secret itself is a secret.
dragons rewards gains
Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!