Dorothy L Sayers Quotes (12 quotations)

1. A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. - Dorothy L Sayers

2. A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. - Dorothy L Sayers

3. A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. - Dorothy L Sayers

4. 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

5. 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. - Dorothy L Sayers

6. 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

7. I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking. - Dorothy L Sayers

8. The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth. - Dorothy L Sayers

9. The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. - Dorothy L Sayers

10. The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. - Dorothy L Sayers

11. The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. - Dorothy L Sayers

12. Trouble shared is trouble halved. - Dorothy L Sayers

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