Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

• Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can’t teach people that – they have to learn by experience.

  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

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

  Dorothy L. Sayers

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

  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

• Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

  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

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

  Dorothy L. Sayers

• The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

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• Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

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• And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you — I am at rest with you — I have come home.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

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Dorothy L. Sayers (32)

Birth:	13th June, 1893
Death:	17th December, 1957
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Translator, Writer

About

Dorothy Leigh Sayers was born in Oxford, UK. She was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator, and novelist. In 1923 she published her first novel, Whose Body, which introduced Lord Peter Wimsey, her hero for fourteen volumes of novels and short stories. She also wrote four other novels in collaboration and two serial stories for broadcasting. She had already been asked to write a play, The Zeal of Thy House, for the Canterbury Festival. She followed this with six more, up to the Colchester Festival play, The Emperor Constantine in 1951. Sayers' first book of poetry was published in 1916. Her second book of poems, "Catholic Tales and Christian Songs", was published in 1918. In The Nine Tailors, one of her most well-known detective novels, the plot unfolds largely in and around an old church dating back to the Middle Ages.

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