Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

About Dorothy L. Sayers:

Dorothy Leigh Sayers was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator, and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages.
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Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Dorothy L. Sayers

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Incidentally, one has to be very careful with that ‘Bridegroom’ imagery. It is so very apt to land one in Male and Female Principles, Eleusis, and the womb of the Great Mother. And that sort of thing doesn’t make much appeal to well-balanced wo...

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The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come.

Dorothy L. Sayers

His [Lord Peter's] long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity.

Dorothy L. Sayers

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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, a...

Dorothy L. Sayers

Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?" "Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, there's no excitement like it. It's marvelous. It makes you feel like God on the Seventh Day – fo...

Dorothy L. Sayers

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

Dorothy L. Sayers

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Author Bio

  • NameDorothy L. Sayers
  • DescriptionEnglish crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer
  • AliasesDorothy Sayers; Dorothy Leigh Sayers
  • BornJune 13, 1893
  • DiedDecember 17, 1957
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Translator; Novelist; Playwright; Essayist; Poet
  • WorksWhose Body?; Clouds Of Witness; Unnatural Death; The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club; Lord Peter Views The Body; Strong Poison; Five Red Herrings; Have His Carcase; Hangman's Holiday; Murder Must Advertise; The Nine Tailors; Gaudy Night; Busman's Honeymoon; In The Teeth Of The Evidence; Striding Folly