Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)

Quotes

• The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

• I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking.

• A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

• 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.

• A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.