There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.
Dorothy L. SayersFor God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.
Dorothy L. SayersA continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
Dorothy L. SayersAnythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.
Dorothy L. SayersFor we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.
Dorothy L. Sayers