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
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.
knowledge civilization way
Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.
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.
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!
numbers astrology people
the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.
sarcastic safety-pins spine
He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
christian done good-work
The only Christian work is good work, well done
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.
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.
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.
night pounds decline
On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.
forgiveness sin
Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.