28 ordspråk av Dorothy L. Sayers

GB  Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers föddes den June 13th 1893 och dog den 17 December 1957 - English writer
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 A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

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

 a nice old duck really, when you know her!

 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.

 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.

 Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

 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.

 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.

 I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

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

 I love you - I am at rest with you- I have come home.

 I love you- I am at rest with you- I have come home.

 If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

 In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

 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.


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