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
book writing impossible
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.
men use rotten
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.
political original-thought originality
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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.
jobs work men
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
tattoo sexy passion
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
people cheerful matter
Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.
hearing pleasure ifs
If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle
hands found fortnight
She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.
christian done good-work
The only Christian work is good work, well done
marriage independent two
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
mean law people
I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.
truth believe advantage
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
men people mind
The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.