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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
secret asking secrecy
A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.
truth believe advantage
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
christian done good-work
The only Christian work is good work, well done