Dorothy L. Sayers - Work Quotes

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

Dorothy L. Sayers
I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look how popular are the men who dig up London with electric drills. Duke's son, cook's son, son of a hundred kings, people will stand there for hours on end, ear drums splitting. Why? Simply for the pleasure of being idle while watching other people work.

Dorothy L. Sayers
We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

Dorothy L. Sayers
The autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

Dorothy L. Sayers
I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.

Dorothy L. Sayers
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers
There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

Dorothy L. Sayers