The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.
Dorothy L. SayersSex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
Dorothy L. SayersThe young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.
Dorothy L. SayersThe ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.
Dorothy L. Sayers