It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.
Dorothy L. SayersPraise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).
Dorothy L. SayersNone of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
Dorothy L. SayersDo you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.
Dorothy L. SayersBirth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprรจme de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croรปtons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know.
Dorothy L. Sayers