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
dog kind appearance
He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.
people double-standard morality
Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
people special purpose
We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.
girl dolls peculiar
What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.
beautiful jobs men
Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.
valentines-day valentines-day valentine-love
It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.
idiot speak speak-the-truth
Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.
wall branches gothic
Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.
garden mind importance
However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?
drunk sober easy
Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.
doe stories detectives
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
community mind good-work
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
letters firsts vulgar
nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular ...
firsts principles doe
The first thing a principle does is kill somebody