Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mother, Husband, Father

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.71, Open Road Media

• you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mother, Book, Writing

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.408, Open Road Media

• All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mother, Children, Book

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Nine Tailors”, p.464, Open Road Media

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