Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Strong Women, Time, Uncontrollable Urge

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.292, Open Road Media

• Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Believe, Age, Looks

• It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Business, Inspiration, Giving

• To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he is distressed to find that the more means he can dispose of-such as machine-power, rapid transport, and general civilized amenities, the more his problems grow in hardness and complexity....Perhaps the first thing he can learn form the artists is that the only way of 'mastering' one's material is to abandon the whole conception of mastery and to co-operate with it in love: whosoever will be a lord of life, let him be its servant.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Love, Mean, Men

• I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Regret, Men, Brain

• 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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Birthday, Children, Turning 50

• I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Past, Men, Thinking

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Whose Body?”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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