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
Dorothy L. Sayers quotes about
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.
believe boys men
Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize.
religious war believe
People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
believe understanding training
But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.
truth believe advantage
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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.
believe age may
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
hate believe tolerance
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
alive believes cares enjoys finds hates hell interferes lives purpose remains seeks sin
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
mistake expression literature
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.
running horse stupid
Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.
principles realizing middle
The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.
giving generations citizens
The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.
kings forever honor
Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.