Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957)

Quotes

• How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

• To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing.

• 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.

• 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.

• Trouble shared is trouble halved.

• To forbid the making of pictures about God would be to forbid thinking about God at all, for man is so made that he has no way to think except in pictures.