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
jesus taken heart
If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.
time thinking feet
all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.
men people victim
no share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him ...
believe needs impossible
It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.
way murder born
whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.
luck fortune irritating
there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.
eye brain kind
Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.
care bones sin
I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.
weather climate england
Britain possesses no climate, only weather.
way
There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life ...
business inspiration giving
It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.
elements interpretation autobiography
the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.
artist creative way
The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.
theory dangerous dangerous-things
Very dangerous things, theories.