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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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Famous Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

“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.”

Mind Body Truth Values Integrity Honour Social Norms

Book:Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

“She resented the way in which he walked in and out of her mind as if it was his own flat.”

Love Mind Thoughts Resentment One Mind

Book:Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

“You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.”

Ifs Mind Community Activism Good Work

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.”

Thinking Mind Facts Feelings Able Expression Statements Confused Personal Feelings So Confused

Book:Mind of the Maker

Source: Mind of the Maker

“Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.”

Mind Doe Philosophy Blood Food Youth Emotional Painting Response Passionate Delight Theology No Response

Book:The Documents in the Case

Source: The Documents in the Case

“Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.”

Mind Interesting Personality Individuality British Variety Eccentricity Crankiness

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“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.”

Mind Mark Mathematics Invention Interpretation Barren Reproduction Fertile Infallible

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.”

Ifs Mind Wells Children Has Beens Book Character Seems Would Be Mother Goodness Absolutes Intelligent Coming Out Bores Moron Toss

Book:The Nine Tailors

Source: The Nine Tailors

“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?”

Mind Subjects Equal Garden Importance Wander Enticing

Book:Strong Poison

Source: Strong Poison

“But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.”

People Ifs Mind Body Values Social Beauty Revolution Honour Norm Social Revolution

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.”

Men Mind Helping Poor Havens Irony Logical Ironic

Book:Busman's Honeymoon

Source: Busman's Honeymoon

“[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.”

“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.”

People Ifs Men Mind Christianity Staring Dramatic Dogma Incarnation Bewilderment

Book:The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright

Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright

“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.”

Ifs Mind Use Weak Mastery Vocabulary Mislead Advertisements Recycling Sloppy Syntax Weak Minds

Author: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.”

Mind Seems Race Greater Subjects Fund Amusement Anglo Saxon

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

About the Author

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

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