There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.
Dorothy L. SayersIt 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[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.
Dorothy L. SayersHow can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.
Dorothy L. Sayers