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Dorothy L. Sayers was an English writer renowned for her detective novels. Her works are celebrated for their unique literary style and profound insights into criminal psychology. Sayers' detective novels typically feature the character of Valery West, a female detective, whose stories offer not only suspenseful plots but also delve into moral and philosophical issues.

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“It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.”

Giving Moments Bigs Inspiration Age Left Business Gone Greed Scales Titles Enterprise Flags Glamour Covetousness

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.”

Giving Generations Citizens

Book:Mind of the Maker

Source: Mind of the Maker

“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.”

Ifs Giving Running Passion Week Stupid Six Horse Nervous Sunday Awkward Heels Truck Brutes Reins

Book:Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

“you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.”

Ifs Men Giving Writing Long Doe Book Mother Names Wit Old Fashioned Holmes Mother Wit

Book:The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death

Source: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death

“The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.”

People Giving Christ Church Sin Hell Judgment Doctrine Frightening Deliberate Giving Money

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.”

Thinking Giving Hands Jobs Easier Fellows Glorious Sensations Schemes Delightful

Book:The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?

Source: The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?

“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.”

Giving Facts Literature Diversity Weakness Devil Dues Propaganda

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.”

Giving Rounds Sake Necks Bricks Hazards

Book:Busman's Honeymoon

Source: Busman's Honeymoon

“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.”

Knows Want Giving Persons Said I Can Play Games Left Force Situation Emotional Depends Blame Truest Blame Me

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“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.”

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Book:Strong Poison

Source: Strong Poison

About the Author

Born: June 13, 1893
Died: December 17, 1957
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 306

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