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
interesting personality individuality
Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
hallmark competence knows
To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.
double-bass sculpture baggage
It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.
believe understanding training
But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.
sex disappointment spots
Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
running writing air
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
heart looks may
Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.
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.
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To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.
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.
men law may
There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.
law littles mystery
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
regret food eggs
I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.