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
passion atmosphere trying
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
men wife fit
A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.
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.
mistake believe firsts
First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
jobs thinking views
[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.
sarcastic safety-pins spine
He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
heart laughing world
We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
law crime
There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.
discipline demand annoying
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.
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!
media public-opinion journalism
the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.
morning blessed food
What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?
art perfect bully
The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom.
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.