Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

I know how deeply slothful I am.

I'm incredibly lazy!

I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.