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
hurt miracle looks
Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--
passion devil looks
The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.
movement looks spirit
We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.
heart looks may
Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.
mistake expression literature
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.
running horse stupid
Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.
principles realizing middle
The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.
giving generations citizens
The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.
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.
dream night garden
I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.
forgiveness sin
Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.
philosophy food emotional
Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.
church demand tables
What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.
jesus taken heart
If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.