Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.
Dorothy L. SayersSex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
Dorothy L. SayersEvery great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.
Dorothy L. SayersWherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
Dorothy L. SayersIn fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
Dorothy L. Sayers