all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.
Dorothy L. Sayers[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.
Dorothy L. SayersDetective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.
Dorothy L. SayersA passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.
Dorothy L. Sayers