470 Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Advertising never sold a bad product twice.

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste ...

Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.