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
honesty may sake
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
people factories powder
If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.
mean clarity plain-english
A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.
race mind amusement
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
men people expecting
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
community way facts
There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.
trouble
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
jesus drama world
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.
social-values kind limitation
There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.
parent sloth sin
There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.
war two sloth
The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.
work important profession
What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
faith inspiration past
God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely blot out the evil past but in the most literal sense "makes it good."
government order democracy
The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.