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
secret
That there is a secret itself is a secret.
real book mind
[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.
heart people brain
What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
fun views justice
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.
true-love people wicked
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
knowledge civilization way
Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.
people feelings firsts
It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.
love home ends
And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
jobs kings son
I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look how popular are the men who dig up London with electric drills. Duke's son, cook's son, son of a hundred kings, people will stand there for hours on end, ear drums splitting. Why? Simply for the pleasure of being idle while watching other people work.
differences numbers people
I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
confused thinking expression
The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.
christian men church
It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.
order house waste
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.
occupation nuisance world
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.