Dorothy L Sayers Famous Quotes
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.
I always have a quotation for everything-- it saves original thinking.
"The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless."
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
"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 human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L Sayers Quotations
"The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received."
Richard Jordan
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch
My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible.
Josephine demott Robinson
Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Saint Francis de Sales
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts."
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
Jerome K Jerome
"God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty"
William Shakespeare
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Hellen Keller
"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet."
William Shakespeare