A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

The worst sin—perhaps the only sin—passion can commit, is to be joyless.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

Books… are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

We may argue eloquently that "honesty is the best policy." Unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

—Walter Lippmann

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

—Anatole France

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

—Laurence J. Peter

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

—Josh Billings