How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
Dorothy L. SayersWork is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.
Dorothy L. SayersEvery time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
Dorothy L. SayersHow can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.
Dorothy L. SayersTo complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.
Dorothy L. SayersBirth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprรจme de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croรปtons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know.
Dorothy L. Sayers