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
world youth young
Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.
war party thinking
Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.
emotion sincere clauses
[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?
truth knows whole-truth
There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.
running cows faces
She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
love cheer mean
It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may." "I will give the footman orders to admit you," said the prisoner, gravely, "you will always find me at home.
class individual members
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
men yardsticks waste
To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.
reality blessing personality
Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).
people may matter
Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.
passion ducks fleeting
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
war suits ifs
If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
emotional games play
Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person." "That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said." "All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it." "But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.
memories doe gone
I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.