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
mind mathematics invention
To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.
men ironic mind
But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
beauty people mind
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.
garden mind importance
However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?
community mind good-work
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
race mind amusement
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
men people mind
The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.
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.
vocabulary mind syntax
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
british-author goes less older toward
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
british-author human mankind
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
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.