Dorothy L. Sayers Work Quotations

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

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 ...

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.

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

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.