Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
Dorothy L. SayersA person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.
Dorothy L. SayersTo make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.
Dorothy L. Sayersthe truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.
Dorothy L. Sayers