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Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June1893 – 17 December1957) was a renowned British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist.
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Clouds of Witness (1926)[edit]
- Bunter: My old mother always used to say, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Your mother, Bunter? Oh, I never knew you had one. I always thought you just sort of came along already-made, so it were.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: I always said the professional advocate was the most amoral person on the face of the earth. I'm certain of it now.
- Sir Impey Biggs: 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.
- Sir Impey Biggs: Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
- Honoria Lucasta, Dowager Duchess of Denver: It's so much better to do things neatly and properly, even stupid things.
The Unpleasantness at The Bellona Club (1928)[edit]
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Books..are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
- George Fentiman: What’s the damn good of it, Wimsey? A man goes and fights for his country, gets his inside gassed out, and loses his job, and all they give him is the privilege of marching past the Cenotaph once a year and paying four shillings in the pound income-tax.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: It’s my belief most of us would only be too pleased to chuck these community hysterics if the beastly newspapers didn’t run it for all it’s worth. However, it won’t do to say so. (on Remembrance Day observances)
Strong Poison (1930)[edit]
- Lord Peter Wimsey: She has a sense of humor.. and brains.. life wouldn't be dull. One would wake up, and there would be a whole day full of jolly things to do. And then we would come home and go to bed.. and that would be jolly too.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: I'm told I make love rather nicely. Though I am at a bit of a disadvantage at the moment. One can't be too convincing at the other end of the table with a bloke looking in the window.
- Harriet Vane: If anybody does marry you it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle.
- Charles Parker: We don't want to make large and ignominious public mistakes.
The Five Red Herrings (1931)[edit]
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Have His Carcase (1932)[edit]
- Lord Peter Wimsey: I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
Murder Must Advertise (1933)[edit]
- Mr. Ingleby: You don't need an argument for buying butter. It's a natural, human instinct.
- Mr. Hankin: ..the biggest obstacle to good advertising is the client.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: He dogs my footsteps with the incompetent zeal of fifty Watsons.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Wherever trouble turns up, there am I at the bottom of it.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Everybody suspects an eager desire to curry favour, but rudeness, for some reason, is always accepted as a guarantee of good faith. The only man who ever managed to see through rudeness was Saint Augustine.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Wait a second.. I'm not sure that you haven't said something useful and important.
Lady Mary Wimsey: Everything I say is useful and important.
Gaudy Night (1936)[edit]
- Lord Peter Wimsey: 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.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: The first thing a principle does — if it really is a principle — is to kill somebody.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it – that is at the bottom of the ψευδῆ λέγειν ὡς δεῖ.[1]
- Lord Peter Wimsey: The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
- Miss de Vine: [In response to Harriet Vane's, 'But you say you don't despise those who make some other person their job?'] 'Far from despising them, I think they are dangerous.'
- Freddie Arbuthnot*: '..mild old gentlemen do sometimes break out into a spot of tut-tuttery.'
Busman's Honeymoon (1937)[edit]
- 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. - Lord Peter Wimsey to Harriet Vane, now his wife
The Dawson Pedigree and Lord Peter Views the Body (1938)[edit]
- Many words have no legal meaning. Others have a legal meaning very unlike their ordinary meaning. For example, the word 'daffydown-dilly.' It is a criminal libel to call a lawyer a daffy-down-dilly. Ha! Yes, I advise you never to do such a thing. No, I certainly advise you never to do it.
- P. 169.
Dorothy Sayers On Women
Essays[edit]
The Psychology of Advertising (1937)[edit]
- 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.
Dorothy Sayers Novels In Order
Are Women Human? (1938)[edit]
- A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
- What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
The Dogma Is the Drama (1938)[edit]
- Somehow or other, and with the best of intentions, we have shown the world the typical Christian in the likeness of a crashing and rather ill-natured bore—and this in the name of one who assuredly never bored a soul in those thirty-three years during which he passed through the world like a flame.
The Triumph of Easter (1938)[edit]
- What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?..God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.
Dorothy Sayers Quotes
The Other Six Deadly Sins (1941)[edit]
- Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
Why Work? (1942)[edit]
- The Church's approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables. Church by all means, and decent forms of amusement, certainly—but what use is all that if in the very center of his life and occupation he is insulting God with bad carpentry? No crooked table legs or ill-fitting drawers ever came out of the carpenter's shop at Nazareth. Nor, if they did, could anyone believe that they were made by the same hand that made Heaven and earth.
Other[edit]
- It pays to advertise! - her best-known slogan for S. H. Benson's, then one of Britain's most prominent advertising firms (Mitzi Brunsdale, Dorothy L. Sayers. New York: Berg, 1990, p. 194)
Notes[edit]
- ↑From Aristotle's Poetics: the right way to tell lies.
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None Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Showing 1-5 of 8 (next show all) Quick and fun read! Only 69 pages, and they are small. This book is comprised of two essays from the author. The premise is that both men and women are first and foremost human, than male and female (although male and female is in no way separate from their humaness). Point being, sometimes we treat things women do as 'womens' issues, when in reality its a matter of things humans do. If that doesn't make sense, or rubs you the wrong way, just pick up the book and challenge yourself :) ( ) 1RebeccaWattier Mar 22, 2016 Great stuff! Dorothy L Sayers claimed not to be a feminist. However, if a feminist is a person who believes that women and men should have equal rights, then Sayers was definitely one. These writings exemplify Sayers: pithy, witty, seriously smart and still relevant 70 years down the track. ( ) 2KimMR Apr 2, 2013 Sayers gained literary fame for her mysteries, which feature Lord Peter Wimsey, and her translation of Dante’s Inferno. This collection of essays looks at the role women play in society. The title essay was actually a speech Sayers’ gave at an event. I loved the way she lays out the issue and the simplicity of the answer. She makes it clear that she doesn’t know exactly what every woman wants to do with her life, because women want the same options that men have. They want to be able to decide how to live their own lives, nothing more. I really enjoyed this collection (esp. the title piece) because Sayers never sounds preachy or condescending. She’s just expressing her opinion and stating that women don’t deserve special treatment, but they do deserve equal treatment. This is exactly how I feel. I don’t want different (aka lower) standards for a woman to be able to qualify for a field. If a woman wants to be a firefighter she should have to fulfill the same physical requirements as a man who would want to. It’s not about being “fair” to someone of a smaller size, it’s about being able to lift the equipment and carry someone out of a burning building. I think Sayers represents this idea well. She thinks, as I do, that any woman should be allowed to be work towards whatever goal or profession she desires, but that doesn’t mean that every woman will want the same thing. Here are a few good lines… “What we must not do is to argue that the occasional appearance of a female mechanical genius proves that all women would be mechanical geniuses if they were educated. They would not.” “Men have asked from the beginning of time, ‘what do women want?’ I do not know that women, as women, want anything in particular, but as human beings they want, my good men, exactly what you want yourselves: interesting occupation, reasonable freedom for their pleasures, and a sufficient emotional outlet. What form the occupation, the pleasures and the emotion may take, depends entirely upon the individual.' ( ) 3bookworm12 Apr 12, 2011 Sayers is straightforward, intelligent, and as clear as ever. She takes great delight in skewering some popular errors of feminist though (especially lines like 'a woman is as good as a man'), while at the same time taking men to task for condescension.The most original argument she makes is that the problems modern feminism attempts to address were largely brought on by industrialism, which removed so many occupations from the sphere of the home. ( ) m_dow Jan 24, 2011 Are Women Human was an address given by Dorothy L. Sayers to a women’s society in 1938. You would think that, 72 years later, it would seem dated and irrelevant. Not a bit. (Well, okay, a tiny bit. But no more than that.) Sayers’ argument uses some examples that are not directly relevant today, but the thrust of her argument is as fresh now as when it was written: men and women are all human beings, and, while there are some differences between the sexes, to see them as ontologically different is incorrect, unhelpful and unfair. ‘“What,” men have asked distractedly from the beginning of time, “what on earth do women want?” I do not know that women, as women, want anything in particular, but as human beings they want, my good man, exactly what you want yourselves: interesting occupation, reasonable freedom for their pleasures, and a sufficient emotional outlet. What form the occupation, the pleasures and the emotion may take, depends entirely upon the individual.’ (p. 44) The wit, delivery and argument are all superb: I started to mark quotable passages but gave up after the first thirty-eight. The second essay in this volume, The Human-Not-Quite-Human was presumably written a little later (it refers explicitly to the use of women’s labour in wartime), and is a little angrier in tone. Nevertheless, it, like the first essay, contains a lot of humour and a lot of sense. The book also contains an excellent introduction by Mary McDermott Shideler, which puts Sayers’ essays into the context of her wider work. Don't be put off by the theology tag: Sayers' ideas are informed by her Christian faith, but God only puts in a very brief appearance on the last couple of pages. I thoroughly recommend this book – to men and women – but for the last word I’m going to let Miss Sayers speak for herself: ‘I am occasionally desired by .. the editors of magazines to say something about the writing of detective fiction “from the woman’s point of view.” To such demands, one can only say, “Go away and don’t be silly. You might as well ask what is the female angle on an equilateral triangle.”’ (p. 41) ( ) 25catherinestead Jun 19, 2010 Showing 1-5 of 8 (next show all) ▾Published reviews Is contained in▾Common Knowledge
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0802829961, Paperback)Introduction by Mary McDermott ShidelerOne of the first women to graduate from Oxford University, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals whether or not what she wanted to do was ordinarily understood to be 'feminine.' Sayers did not devote a great deal of time to talking or writing about feminism, but she did explicitly address the issue of women's role in society in the two classic essays collected here. Central to Sayers's reflections is the conviction that both men and women are first of all human beings and must be regarded as essentially much more alike than different. We are to be true not so much to our sex as to our humanity. The proper role of both men and women, in her view, is to find the work for which they are suited and to do it. Though written several decades ago, these essays still offer in Sayers's piquant style a sensible and conciliatory approach to ongoing gender issues. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:20:13 -0400) (see all 2 descriptions) Introduction by Mary McDermott Shideler One of the first women to graduate from Oxford University, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals whether or not what she wanted to do was ordinarily understood to be 'feminine.' Sayers did not devote a great deal of time to talking or writing about feminism, but she did explicitly address the issue of women's role in society in the two classic essays collected here. Central to Sayers's reflections is the conviction that both men and women are first of all human beings and must be regarded as essentially much more alike than different. We are to be true not so much to our sex as to our humanity. The proper role of both men and women, in her view, is to find the work for which they are suited and to do it. Though written several decades ago, these essays still offer in Sayers's piquant style a sensible and conciliatory approach to ongoing gender issues. |
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