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Dorothy L. Sayers
British
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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,
British
Author
#Time
#People
#Work
#Man
#Money
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
Dorothy L. Sayers,
British
Author
#Youth
#May
#Age
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
Dorothy L. Sayers,
British
Author
#Trying
#Passion
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers,
British
Author
#World
#Being
#Occupation
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,
British
Author
#Care
#Bed
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,
British
Author
#Death
#Race
#Amusement
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
Dorothy L. Sayers,
British
Author
#Thinking
#Quotation
I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
Dorothy L. Sayers,
British
Author
#Love
#Home
#Rest
If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
Dorothy L. Sayers,
British
Author
#War
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,
British
Author
#Nothing
#Truth
#Lawyers
#Mystery
She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
Dorothy L. Sayers,
British
Author
#Facts
#Cows
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,
British
Author
#English
#Language
#Simplicity
#Machine
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Dorothy L. Sayers,
British
Author
#Truth
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers,
British
Author
#Passion
#Sin
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
Dorothy L. Sayers,
British
Author
#Public
#Will
#End
#Possibility
Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
Dorothy L. Sayers,
British
Author
#Job
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 L. Sayers,
British
Author
#Writer
#English
#Vocabulary
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers,
British
Author
#Time
#Will
#Trouble
#Old
#Woman
#Force
Very dangerous things, theories.
Dorothy L. Sayers,
British
Author
#Theories
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
Dorothy L. Sayers,
British
Author
#Time
#Will
#World
#Evil
#Future
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,
British
Author
#Love
#God
#People
#Experience