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Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes


A renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. 
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between World War I and World War II that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divina Commedia to be her best work. She is also known for her plays and essays.

Here are some famous quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

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People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.

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The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.

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What we make is more important than what we are particularly if making is our profession.

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A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

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You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.

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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.

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Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.